Head-On Crash: Utility Pole Snapped, Transformer Lands In Truck And Driver's OK In Fair Lawn

A driver somehow escaped serious injury in Fair Lawn on Thursday when his box truck skimmed a tree, bowled over four street signs and slammed flush into a utility pole, snapping it clean in half.

The box truck skimmed a tree, bowled over four street signs and slammed flush into a utility pole, snapping it clean in half, on Lincoln Avenue in Fair Lawn on Thursday, July 27.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

The driver told police a car cut in front of him, prompting him to swerve and lose control.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving (file photo)*

Citywide Towing removed the wreck.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

A miracle, really.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Jerry DeMarco

07/27/2023 7:33 p.m.

Not only did the upper section of the streetlight pole land on top of the truck in the collision on Lincoln Avenue near Loretto Avenue around 1:30 p.m. July 27.

The transformer also fell through the roof into the cargo area (see photo above).

The driver told police a car cut in front of him, prompting him to swerve and lose control of the Pattman Plumbing truck from Midland Park.

Citywide Towing removed the wreck.

PSE&G was called to replace the pole.

Hawthorne police assisted their Fair Lawn law enforcement colleagues, who are investigating the cause of the crash.

Boyd A. Loving took the photos.

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