KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A driver and passenger were injured in a single-vehicle crash after a car drove off the roadway into a utility pole Friday night in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department says a black Subaru Outback was driving south on Prospect Avenue, just before 44th Street.
Shortly before 8 p.m. Friday night, the driver of the vehicle veered of the roadway, straight into a wooden utility pole, per police.
The pole was sheared and flipped onto the Subaru's roof.
The driver suffered critical injuries while the passenger was seriously injured. Both occupants were taken to area hospitals.
Power was knocked out for several blocks following the crash until Evergy responded to the area to resolve the outage, per KCPD.
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