Bridgeport Police Update:  At 11:24 pm, Bridgeport Police were dispatched to 320 Dewey Street for a one car collision versus a utility pole. The twenty-six-year male operator was driving a 2002 Honda Accord north on Dewey Street when he veered right into a United Illuminating pole snapping the pole in half where a transformer fell into a nearby commercial lot. He was transported to Saint Vincent’s Hospital. A forty-three-year female was transported to Bridgeport Hospital and reported in stable condition.

Rear seat passenger, sixty-one-year-old male, transported to Saint Vincent’s Hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 02:41. He suffered severe head trauma and traumatic cardiac arrest.

The collision occurred across from Mountain Grove Cemetery.  It appears the driver of the vehicle was operating the car too fast and had fallen asleep at the wheel.

11:38pm–#Bridgeport CT– One person was seriously injured and another person possibly killed in a one car crash into a utility pole on Dewey Street near Mountain Grove Street.  Avoid the area, I’m sure the area will be closed for the investigation for an extended period of time.