Madison Avenue Closes for Four Hours Following Crash Into Utility Pole

A crash near on Madison Avenue near the intersection of Riverside Drive closed traffic for nearly four hours Wednesday evening. 

A man driving a Cadillac lost control of the vehicle around 4 p.m., striking a utility pole. It splintered the police nearly in half. The man was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

 The Lakewood and closed Madison Avenue, worried the pole would collapse, sending live electrical wires to the ground.

However, the pole didn’t fall — and the electrical wires remained intact. When workers from the Illuminating Company arrived on the scene around 6:30 p.m., they worked until almost 8 p.m. to repair the pole, until it can be replaced.