An unidentified person struck a pole with their black sport utility vehicle at about 2:30 a.m. this morning on the Ostrom Avenue side of Dellplain Hall.

Nick Treffiletti, a sophomore undecided major, said he was driving when he saw a Syracuse University Public Safety vehicle stopped in the middle of the road before and then noticed the crash. He said he saw the car overturned in the road and the pole the car struck dangling from wires.

The vehicle had Virginia license plates.

A Syracuse Police Department officer said the occupant of the vehicle was conscious when taken from the SUV but had been taken to an unspecified hospital to be checked out. Treffiletti said the victim was not able to get out of the car on his own and required emergency assistance.

The section of Ostrom Avenue from before Dellplain to just after the Ostrom parking lot was blocked off by Public Safety and Syracuse Police, Fire, and ambulance personnel.

“It is a city street and is in the hand of the Syracuse Police Department,” said Dan Lebron, a Public Safety corporal.

Lt. Bill Wade, of the Syracuse Fire Department, said the pole that was dangling from the power lines would have to be cut down and replaced before the street could be reopened.

“If the wire were to break it would curl out and create a charge,” Wade said.

Published on November 5, 2002 at 12:00 pm