crash_reports: 2000000019

The operator of MV#1 stated he was travelling northbound on Walnut St when the top portion of his vehicle caught some low hanging wires and took down 2 utility poles and damaged a third utility pole. There were no reported injuries to the operator of MV#1 and no visible damages to MV#1. The operator of MV#1 is a delivery driver that is familiar with the area and frequents the same route. There were several live primary wires down on Floral St and Walnut St. Unit N-498 Officer Raymond blocked off Walnut St at Centre St, Unit N-502 Officer Nardelli blocked off eastbound Floral St and I blocked off Walnut St at Lincoln St. The surrounding pedestrian sidewalks were all taped off with Police caution tape. MV#1 struck the low hanging wires on Walnut St at the intersection of Floral St. Utility pole #A (47/12 ) located on Walnut St directly in front of the parking of the "Orchid Dry Cleaners" at 1175 Walnut St was cracked at the base. Utility pole #B was located on the westbound side of Floral St was split at the base and was dangling over the parking lot at 1175 Walnut St. Utility pole #C was located on the eastbound side of Floral St and was completely removed from its foundation and was now leaning on the building at 1182 Walnut St. The street/ stop sign of Floral St was damaged with the "Stop" sign and the "Floral St" sign completely removed from the pole (Located on the eastbound side of Floral St). A city tree limb that was damaged and landed on top of parked Vehicle #2 (Parked on the eastbound side of Floral St across from 49 Floral St. Wisconsin registration 850TGM). The owner of vehicle #2 was informed of the damage. Traffic Officer Gaudet took digital photographs of the damaged street/ stop sign and the damaged city tree. The witness Pat O'Hara of 1185 Walnut St stated MV#1 did not cause the accident but a previous bigger truck did. All he could provide was that the vehicle was a big truck travelling northbound on Walnut St. The witness Edna Jacquet stated she was parked on Walnut St (Parked between 09:00 to 09:15) at the MBTA bridge facing southbound when she observed the accident. Edna stated she observed the operator make eye contact with her and she proceeded to honk her horn in attempts to stop him. Edna stated the vehicle that caused the accident was a white colored 18 wheeler type of truck with the markings of "3 letters" all in different colors. Edna have a company video camera that faces forward attached to her vehicle that may have captured the accident. I spoke to her company manager Lisa Sanella at "TransAction Corporate Shuttles" located at 5 Wheeling Ave in Woburn MA and she will notify me if she is able to view video footages. The building owner of 1170- 1176 Walnut St Stas Gavronsky have a surveillance camera that faces Walnut St southbound towards Floral St. He will review the video footages once power have been restored that the area and notify me. On 01/07/2020 Lisa Sanella contacted me stating that they were able to review video footages from the front facing camera of Edna's shuttle bus. She stated that the involved vehicle was described as a big white colored 18 wheeler type of truck and did not have a front registration plate but did display the commercial company name of "GHG Logistics". Lisa stated the accident was time recorded at 09:13. Lisa made a copy of the video footage and will attempt to email it or deliver a flashdrive to me. An internet search of GHG Logistics showed that it is a distribution company out of 6390 Hedgewood Dr suite #300 out of Allentown PA. This company distributes wholesale sushi to the northeast area and their delivery trucks are equipped with "Rydsmart" GPS tracking devices enabling them to know their locations at all times. I spoke to Joanna Gerwig who is the store support team leader of the "Wholefoods" located at 916 Walnut St inquiring about a possible sushi delivery and she confirmed that GHG Logistics does regular deliveries and did deliver items yesterday morning between 08:00 -09:00. She stated that the truck displayed trailer #250634-481801 and that the driver was described as a big sized white male by the name of "Will" with a contact number of (570) 350-3453. She also have video footages of the truck making the delivery and provided me with their contact number of (800) 668-7700 and their corporate number of (484) 223-4502 (Confirmed to be the same company as my internet search). I viewed the video footage from Transaction Corporate Shuttles and it showed the 18 wheeler truck was travelling northbound on Walnut, catching the utility wires above and causing an electrical spark on the eastbound side of Floral St. It showed the truck slowed down and then continued to travel northbound. I spoke to Will at (570) 350-3453 and he confirmed he was making deliveries to the Wholefoods and was on Walnut St at approximately 09:00. Will stated the top corner portion of his truck did catch the above wires and heard a "twang". Will stated he briefly stopped and did not observed any damages so he continued to make his deliveries. Will stated he have been making the same delivery route for 2 years and never had an issue with low hanging wires. Will's full name is William L. Gray and have a Pennsylvania driver's license # 24551299. The truck's registration is apportioned Indiana 2917618. I have forwarded the video footage to the I.T bureau and it was attached to this report.