A driver destroyed a New Haven Register honor box and rammed into a utility pole on Ellsworth Avenue near Edgewood around 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
Firefighters and police officers responded to the scene. The driver was nowhere to be found; he or she fled on foot. The driver wasn’t the car’s owner, according to Officer Joe Avery.
UI Spokeswoman Anita Steeves said the pole was hit but that no power outages resulted.
There were no reports of fleeing drivers carrying copies of the newspaper through the Edgewood neighborhood.