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Police: Man charged with hitting pole that cop drove into

A Bay Shore man drove off Wednesday after hitting a street pole in North Great River, and soon after, a patrol car responding to the accident crashed into the tip of the dangling pole, Suffolk police said.

The utility pole, hanging 4 feet above Connetquot Avenue and Amityville Street, smashed through the driver's side windshield, said Sgt. James Scimone of the Third Precinct crime section.

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