HATFIELD TOWNSHIP ACCIDENT

Construction dump truck hits pole, collapsing wires on Unionville Pike early Monday morning

The accident occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m.

Photo by James Short.

The accident occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m.

  • Public Safety

A construction dump truck collided with a PP&L utility pole shortly before 12:30 a.m. Monday, bringing electrical wires down onto Unionville Pike and trapping the driver inside the cab.

Hatfield Police received an accident with injuries call at 12:28 a.m. on the 2700 block of Unionville Pike, police said.

Upon arrival, units discovered the truck struck the pole, breaking it and bringing wires down onto the truck and roadway, police said. 

Emergency personnel waited for PP&L electric to arrive and cut power, before safely removing the driver, per reports from the scene. 

The driver was removed about an hour after the call at 1:21 a.m., per reports.

Hatfield Police were assisted at the scene by Hatfield Vol. Fire Co., Hilltown Fire Co., Perseverance Fire Police, and VMSC Emergency Medical Services.

 


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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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