Lower Main Street was closed to traffic for more than an hour Wednesday night after a car ran into the back of a truck, flipping the truck into a light pole and sending live power lines into the road. No one was injured.
“I saw the truck come down the street and it sounded like it hit the curb,” said Sarah Campbell, who lives near the accident scene. “The truck swerved and then hit the pole. There were live wires laying in the street.”
According to Stroud Area Regional Police officers at the scene, a woman was driving a gray Honda Accord in the right lane on Main Street at around 8 p.m. and tried to turn left onto Fourth Street.
When she turned she hit the back of the truck driving in the left lane. The impact sent the back of the truck over the hood of the car and into the air.
Police said the driver of the truck lost control of the truck after the collision and the truck rolled onto the passenger side across both lanes of traffic.
Stroudsburg firefighters were able to stop a gasoline leak from the truck, and PPL crew members shut off power to the downed lines. Police opened the road shortly after 9 p.m.



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