Accidents occur after snow starts falling on New Year's Eve
At least one person was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Forward Township and power was knocked out to several hundred residents following a separate accident in Summit Township on slushy roads Tuesday afternoon.
Both vehicles involved in the accident in the area of 1620 Evans City Road in Forward Township at 2:55 p.m. appeared to be heavily damaged and at least one person was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital.
Traffic was restricted to one lane in the area for a couple hours as emergency crews cleared the scene.
The Evans City Volunteer Fire Department, Harmony Ambulance Service and state police responded.
At 3:10 p.m., a car driven by a woman traveling north on Saxonburg Road in Summit Township hit and sheared a utility pole and came to rest in a field with live power lines around her car and along the road.
The driver suffered minor injuries, but the accident knocked out power to about 750 West Penn Power customers.
This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Thursday's Butler Eagle.