Crime & Safety

Teen Escapes Injury in Friday Morning Crash in Durham

Police say 16-year-old driver hit utility pole on Brick Lane around 7 a.m.

 

A Durham teenager was uninjured in a one-car crash Friday morning.

According to a state police report, the 16-year-old driver was traveling south on Brick Lane around 7 a.m. when she lost control of her car and hit a utility pole.

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The vehicle went down an embankment, hit a metal guardrail and rolled over onto its passenger side near a small stream, the report says.

The teen told police she was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and was not injured. The report says the driver was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital by ambulance, possibly as a precaution.

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The teen was issued a verbal warning for failure to drive in the established lane although no cause for the accident was given.

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