PENN TWP — The intersection of Route 8 and Dinnerbell Road will have temporary traffic signals for the next couple weeks after a box truck flattened a metal utility pole, knocking down power lines and the existing signals in a Monday morning accident.

No one was injured in the 7:50 a.m. accident, but all four lanes of Route 8 were closed and traffic was detoured to Old Route 8 around the site for several hours while the truck and its load of bagged ice were removed and temporary traffic signals were delivered and set up.

Township police and the truck driver, Vaunden Brunn, 19, of New Kensington said he was traveling north on Route 8 in the right lane when he approached the intersection where a car had stopped for a red light.

Brunn tried to slow down, but he said his brakes didn’t work as well as they should and he wasn’t able to stop in time to avoid hitting the car. He turned right into the yard of a rental property at the intersection to avoid a collision, but the truck slowly rolled on to its driver’s side landing on the metal utility pole.

This is a breaking news report — read the full article in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.