ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — One person was taken to a hospital when poles and wires came down onto the middle of Perry Highway in Ross Township during high winds on Tuesday.
Around 12:37 p.m., near Pines Plaza, a pole fell on top of a car that was driving down the road. The woman who was driven had to be taken to a hospital.
As a result of the pole coming down, wires also fell across the road and an SUV drove right into them, causing major damage.
The driver of that SUV tells us she’s grateful to be alive.
“People dove through here saying you’re very lucky, and I am very lucky,” Donna Rowlands said.
The wires partially tore off the front hood of her vehicle, and cracked the windshield.
“It was terrifying. I’m ok. I didn’t get scared and stuff like that, but this could have been worse. I’m pretty grateful.”
Rowlands told Channel 11 that the wind picked up just before the wires and pole came down.
“It was very windy, it was really extremely windy, and [I] took Perry Highway because Mcknight is all backed up with the construction they’re doing there,” she said. “It could have been so much worse, I’m very very grateful.”
Channel 11 is working to learn the condition of the hospitalized woman.
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