A portion of West Shore Road in the Village of Flower Hill was closed after a car struck a utility pole Saturday that also damaged four other poles, leaving customers without power and requiring repairs from PSEG Long Island, officials said.
The motorist, who Nassau County police described only as female, was airlifted to a local hospital and treated for a broken arm.
Nassau County police closed the road around 3 p.m. Saturday between Old Northern Boulevard and Harbor Park Drive. It was later reopened around 5 p.m., police said, but later closed again as PSEG crews repaired the utility poles.
PSEG Long Island spokesman Jeffrey Weir said approximately 60 customers were without power Saturday, some for up to eight hours.
Crews worked to temporarily restore power before replacing four of the downed poles with new ones and straightening another, he said.
The work was completed late Sunday afternoon and the road was deemed passable for motorists and reopened, Weir said.
