Update 11:38 a.m., Friday:
No one was injured when a Chevrolet Tahoe driven by a 20-year-old Darien man hit a utility pole in front of 562 Hoyt St. midday Wednesday, snapping the pole and ripping up a fence, police said.
On Thursday and Friday, police gave this further account of the incident (including accusations not proven in court):
The driver told Darien police he accidentally went off the side of the road. He received a ticket for making an improper turn. The SUV received heavy front-end damage.
The road was closed from about noon to 1:40 p.m. as utility crews worked on the scene.
Original article, Wednesday:
Part of Hoyt Street (Route 106) was closed for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon after a motor vehicle accident in which a utility pole snapped and other damage was done near the street’s intersection with Barringer Road.
Darien police tweeted at 12:13 p.m. and posted an announcement on Facebook that Hoyt Street was closed to traffic. At 1:40 p.m., police announced in a tweet that the road was open again.
The utility pole was snapped in front of 562 Hoyt St., about 400 feet south of the intersection of Hoyt Street and Barringer Road and just north of Woodway Country Club. The pole was on the west side of the road and appeared to serve only one or a couple of houses; utility poles carrying electricity and other services up and down the street appeared to be unaffected on the east side of the road.
At the scene, just as utility trucks were leaving, the snapped pole remained in pieces by the side of the road, near a damaged mailbox and heavy posts that had been, in some cases, wrenched out of the ground or, in others, snapped like toothpicks (see the pictures attached to this article).
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A closer image of the damaged utility pole.
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Some posts holding up a fence-like cable near the utility pole were ripped from the ground.
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Another post pulled out of the ground
