{"id":61834,"date":"2025-12-05T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:23:08","slug":"mta-bus-snaps-utility-pole-in-crash-on-staten-island-prompting-road-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61834\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA bus snaps utility pole in crash on Staten Island, prompting road closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LIVE<\/p>\n<p>Updated: Dec. 05, 2025, 9:17 a.m.|Published: Dec. 05, 2025, 9:08 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Crash\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WJTJOJHERZGGHGROBGGNMO6TGY.jpg\"  \/>A bus slammed into a utility pole on Veterans Road West in Charleston on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.(Dennis Rees for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RKVQ6QLH35ES3LN67RX7MWLJNI\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2013 A bus slammed into a utility pole in a shopping area in Charleston on Friday morning, snapping the wooden structure in two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VHXHHWRTHVFQHIGLU32FVNGLC4\">Emergency officials blocked traffic on Veterans Road West as they responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crash\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2NZDNXNJD5HF3DFBQVKYQI7DIE.jpg\"  \/>An MTA bus slammed into a utility pole on Veterans Road West in Charleston on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.(Dennis Rees for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VYEM7ET5DRAB3MFNRP2KVNRQ54\">The crash was reported about 8:20 a.m., according to emergency radio transmissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AMSV2T6RRVHAHCKNIRS7MQNURM\">The pole was snapped in two, about 15 feet from its base. The bus\u2019s front windshield was shattered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VQPSXVBALND4LNO54V5YYZTWIA\">This is a breaking news story. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crash\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/D3WUP3LNQFDWTNCDZODKHG6FLE.jpg\"  \/>Police block off traffic on Veterans Road West in Charleston after a bus slammed into a utility pole on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.(Dennis Rees for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News LIVE Updated: Dec. 05, 2025, 9:17 a.m.|Published: Dec. 05, 2025, 9:08 a.m.A bus slammed into a utility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-61834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}