NORWICH – Driver fatigue may be to blame for a one-car accident which took out a utility pole near Walmart shortly after 6 a.m. Monday.

According to Trooper Neil Case of the New York State Police, 19-year-old Tyler Webb of Oxford was on his way to work when he fell asleep going through the intersection of Route 12 and Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich.

Webb’s green Chevrolet van left the roadway, striking first a Frontier telephone pedestal and then a NYSEG utility pole before coming to a stop facing south in the north-bound lane.