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Car Crashes Into Pole in Carlsbad

A man was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run following a collision in Carlsbad Thursday. 

A car crashed into a pole at the corner of Carlsbad Boulevard and Avenida Encinas just after 9 p.m., Carlsbad police confirmed. 

The driver would not come out of the vehicle for three hours.

Carlsbad police eventually pulled him from the car and booked him into jail.

The driver, identified by police as Kirk Hansen, 37,  is accused of felony hit-and-run, police said.

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