FRANKFORT - A local woman was reportedly “shook up,” but not seriously injured, after her car went off the road and hit a utility pole Sunday night around 10 p.m.

According to firefighters at the scene, she had been traveling south on Town House Road when her Chevrolet Impala went off the shoulder of the road.

The car came to rest several hundred yards north of the intersection with Swanville Road with its front end squarely touching a utility pole.

“She just touched it, really,” said West Frankfort Fire Dept. Chief Roy Stone.

Stone said the woman was alone in the vehicle. Firefighters reported that she was taken by ambulance to Waldo County General Hospital.

On Monday Morning, Chief Deputy Jeffrey Trafton of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office said the initial report was unclear as to the woman’s town of residence, but the information available suggested that she was local to the area. 

The Frankfort resident who called in the accident reported that she “could smell intoxicants” on the driver, he said. Trafton added that police went straight from the accident scene to the hospital to administer an alcohol test.

“It doesn’t look like she was seriously injured,” he said, “but it does look like it was alcohol related.”

Ethan Andrews can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com