GARDNER, MASS. (WHDH) - Emergency crews responded after a pickup truck crashed into a power station in Gardner Tuesday afternoon, police said.
At around 1:50 p.m., while police and fire crews were responding to a crash on Green Street, a pickup truck drove through the scene and onto Route 140 North at a high rate of speed, according to Gardner police.
Officers got into their cruisers and drove in the direction of the truck, police said in a statement. Soon after, police learned the truck had left Route 140 and broke through a closed gate on National Grid property.
First responders discovered the pickup truck had crashed into the electrical transfer station, striking a utility pole and damaging the surrounding fencing. The driver was trapped inside the truck.
Firefighters extricated the driver, who was taken to Heywood Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Flying over the scene, SKY7-HD spotted a truck smashed into a pole with a broken fence on the roof of the vehicle.
The crash remains under investigation by police.
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