FRANCONIA TOWNSHIP ACCIDENT

Pickup driver severs utility pole, wires fall on Cowpath Road Saturday night

Emergency personnel secured the scene until electric company arrival.

Photo by James Short.

Emergency personnel secured the scene until electric company arrival.

  • Public Safety

A driver of a Chevy SIlverado pickup truck crashed into and severed a utility pole on Cowpath Road near Church Road in Franconia Township Saturday night, necessitating emergency response from personnel to deal with live wires that had fallen on another car.

At 9:57 p.m., a call was reported for a two-vehicle accident with entrapment, with a utility pole on top of a pickup, and live wires across two vehicles. 

 
 By James Short  
 

Police reported shortly thereafter that all parties were out of their vehicles and a safe distance away.

Upon arrival, police found the dark-colored pickup had struck the pole, causing it to fall on the truck. Wires were pulled down from a neighboring pole, and had lain across a white Ford sedan.  

Cowpath Road was closed between Telford Pike and Indian Creek Road.

VMSC EMS was called out, however was not needed and released from the scene.

Telford Volunteer Fire Co. and Perseverance Fire Co. secured the area until PP&L electric arrival.

    By James Short  

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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.