Emergency first responders rushed to the scene of an accident involving a truck that hit a pole and rolled over.

When a sports utility vehicle swerved, flipped, rolled, and snapped off a wooden utility pole like a twig, S.E. Foster Road was closed down at 59th Avenue. It happened just after 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25.

A witness said the SUV had been westbound on S.E. Foster Road when the wreck occurred.

“I was legally parked on the street,” Jose Garcia told THE BEE. “I saw it coming at me. It looked like the driver wasn’t paying attention; and he looked up and saw my truck and swerved, flipped in the air, and rolled into the pole.”

The Woodstock Fire Station’s Engine 25 arrived to assist with what Portland Police Bureau officers had expected would be a trauma injury wreck, although in the end there turned out to be no injuries.

When the driver was helped out of his wrecked vehicle, he muttered to Garcia that the accident was his fault — because he’d been parked on the street!

S.E. Foster Road was closed for several hours while PGE “Eagle” fast-response crews assessed the damage and began to replace the utility pole, which had been left hanging from the wires above.