Crime & Safety
North Reading Intersection Shut Down, Power Out After Crash
Police were asking people to avoid the area.

NORTH READING, MA — An intersection was shut down and power is out after a car drove into a pole in town, police said. The crash was at North Street and Haverhill Street, where the roads was closed.
Those roads were reopened around 4:45 p.m., police said.
Reading Municipal Light Department was on scene to work on the outage.
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An earlier version said a car hit a 'police.' It was a 'pole.'
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