A utility pole fell around 7:20 p.m. at Erie and Washington streets in Dorchester, bringing down phone and electrical wires and trapping a man in the car for 45 minutes until Eversource turned off the power and firefighters were able to get him out and hand him over to EMS to be checked out (photo of the pole and car).

This is the second time in three years that a pole has collapsed on a car on this section of Erie.

A police officer who happened on the scene had to yell at somebody who rushed to the car to try to get the guy out as the electrical lines hummed loudly. Firefighters who arrived not long after made repeated calls to get Eversource on scene.

Around 8 p.m., Eversource remotely shut the power to the area. Not long after, firefighters got the driver out.