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A Lexus wagon driven north by a 57-year-old Elmwood Park woman struck a pole on northbound Grand Avenue at the Linden Avenue intersection around 3:15 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said.The pole pulled down two others with it as it toppled, he said.
One of the poles hit a Toyota Rav 4, also heading north, occupied by a 42-year-old Connecticut man and a 21-year-old Englewood man, Halstead said.
City firefighters freed two of the victims.
Both taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, the deputy chief said.
Grand Avenue remained closed past noon Sunday while PSE&G repaired the poles.
An investigation was continuing.
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