HADLEY – A 22-year-old Florence man was hospitalized Thursday following a crash on South Maple Street that closed the road for almost eight hours.
Hadley Police received a report of a motor vehicle rollover that struck a utility pole around 4:43 p.m. Thursday on South Maple Street between Mill Valley and Moody Bridge Roads.
When emergency responders arrived, they found the driver unresponsive and being tended to by a nurse who happened to be passing by, said Hadley Police Sgt. Mitchell Kuc. The man was breathing and had a pulse, Kuc said.
Kuc said the man was unrestrained and laying inside the car on its roof. The nurse continued to monitor the man’s vital signs until an ambulance and Hadley Fire and Rescue arrived on scene to treat him.
Emergency crews had to use the jaws of life to cut a door out to remove the man from the 2015 Honda Accord. He was taken by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center. Kuc did not have the man’s condition Friday morning but said by the time the man got to the hospital he was awake an talking. The man did not remember the collision.
The road was closed to traffic while crews worked to remove the car and a downed utility pole from the scene. It was reopened to traffic around 12:30 a.m. Friday.
Emily Cutts can be reached at ecutts@gazettenet.com.