PERKIOMEN TOWNSHI CRASH

Car crash knocks down utility pole, wires in Perkiomen Township Tuesday night

The accident occurred around 6 p.m.

By Tony Di Domizio

Managing Editor

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Photo by James Short.

The accident occurred around 6 p.m.

  • Public Safety

A driver of a red car slid on the 300 block of Township Line Road and collided with a utility pole, bringing it down and electrical wires with it Tuesday night in Perkiomen Township.

According to Montgomery County emergency dispatch reports, the wires are not sparking or arcing, but a nearby tree is on fire. 

There are no injuries. 

Township Line Road is closed between Greenshire Boulevard and Bridge Street. The accident was near Panepinto Drive.

Responding units included Perkiomen Township Fire and Limerick Fire Department and associated fire police.


    By James Short   


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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, with a degree in English/Professional Writing and Electronic Media. He went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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