CENTER TWP — A pickup truck took out a large section of the rail fence at a car-repair business on Sunset Drive.

The fence belonged to Joe Pierrel Auto at 253 Sunset Drive.

The 37-year-old man of Butler who was driving the truck said he lost control of the vehicle when it hydroplaned as it came around a bend about 10:40 a.m.

The truck then went up on the left embankment, taking out most of the fence before coming back down and going back across the road, taking out a mailbox.

The truck came to a stop about 30 yards past the car-repair business.

“I thought I was going to hit a telephone pole before (Joe Pierrel Auto),” the man said. “I missed the telephone pole, and that’s when I went up the embankment and hit his fence. So thank God I didn’t hit the telephone pole. I wasn’t going to stop; (the water) completely caught my tires.”

The man was not injured. His truck sustained front-end damage and was towed.

Pierrel and his employees heard the commotion and rushed outside of the building to investigate.

“One of our guys ran over to see if (the driver) was OK right away,” he said. “He was really, really shaken up. He went for a ride.”

Pierrel said the employees put road flares in the road to alert drivers, helped clean up the fence debris, and alerted emergency services.

Butler State Police, Unionville Fire Department and Butler Ambulance responded.

Pierrel said hydroplaning is a common occurrence at the curve at which the man hydroplaned.

“It’s a very bad corner down here,” Pierrel said. “There’s wrecks down here on this corner all the time.”

Pierrel noted damage was done to the fence, to his building, which fence posts hit, to his mailbox, and possibly to four cars, which were near where debris landed.