By Meg Peters
Review Co-Editor
Pockets of lost power hit residences and businesses in Orion Township Monday after a vehicle split a telephone pole on Indianwood Rd and killed an Orion Township woman.
The fatal crash occurred around 4:34 p.m. near Knollwood Dr. after the driver is thought to have swerved, and then overcorrected her steering, according to police reports.
The 48-year-old Orion Township driver was transported to McLaren Oakland in Pontiac and pronounced dead.
Traveling westbound, the vehicle crossed the center lane and veered off the roadway to the right, splitting the telephone pole and then going down a rock embankment. The pole fell and hit two unoccupied vehicles in a nearby driveway.
The site of the crash was near a sharp turn, Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Dan Toth said.
Emergency response teams could not move the crash vehicle until the wires were safely removed from the 2007 Pontiac G6.
Indianwood Rd. was closed between M-24 and Joslyn from the time of the crash until about 11 p.m. Power outages affected residences on nearby roads until late Monday evening.