utility pole

The car probably soared more than 130 feet before it collided with a utility pole and the building, Russo said.

The crash at about 8 p.m. on April 18 had severed a utility pole.

Whenever something went wrong — like the time he hurt himself jumping off a neighbor’s porch, or crashing her car into a utility pole as he tried to teach himself to drive a stick shift — he’d run straight to her.

After a utility pole fell and ignited a wildfire, Frank King and his family raced to escape as electrical transformers exploded around their homes near Oregon’s coast.

One person was killed and two others were injured after a 14-year-old driver lost control of a speeding car and slammed into a utility pole in Encino early Tuesday morning, Los Angeles police said.