Sleeping driver rollover splits utility pole, closes Old Hook Road stretch into afternoon

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A lone driver on Old Hook Road in Westwood fell asleep behind the wheel of his Land Rover, which knocked down a utility pole, stretching power lines, before it came to rest in the woods.

Jerry DeMarco

07/17/2011 7:16 p.m.

Something you hardly ever see: Geese who usually hang at Westwood Cemetery grazing on Old Hook

The driver walked away with barely a scratch after the 6:30 a.m. rollover this morning.

Utility workers quickly had a new pole in place. But Old Hook Road between Kinderkamack Road and Sand Road remained closed at 2 p.m. while police waited for the phone company to complete its work.

An Optimum worker was on the scene about an hour earlier.

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Business was cramped at Burke’s at Old Hook.

However, a half-dozen people were at the bar at 1, a few of them having lunch.

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