Power pole comes down on car, no one hurt
URBANA -- A News-Gazette employee delivering papers and a person with him escaped serious injury Friday morning when the car they were in hit a power pole that came down on the car.
Champaign County sheriff's Sgt. Dan Coile said the accident happened at 3:30 a.m. in the 4800 block of North Lincoln Avenue in Urbana.
Dane Pierson, 19, of Champaign, apparently lost control of the car in new, loose gravel as he rounded a curve and hit an Ameren IP power pole.
The pole snapped, dropping about 15 feet of it on the ground. Some of the pole, with live wires attached, was resting on the car. Coile said OPierson was delivering papers and training his passenger, Sarah Martinsen of Champaign, how to do the route.
Coile said they were out of the car safely when deputies arrived. Emergency responders were unable to do anything for two hours until an Ameren representative arrived to shut down the power supply. Deputies would not let Pierson get back in the car to get to the undelivered papers until the power company arrived, Coile said.
Coile said the car belonged to The News-Gazette.
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