The accident took place at 3:30 p.m.
This is an updated version of a story posted at 7 this evening.
LUDLOW - Police said East Street to the Red Bridge which crosses the Chicopee River to Wilbraham was reopened Tuesday night about 7:30 p.m. following a car crash Tuesday afternoon which closed the bridge.
A two-car collision at the intersection of East and Ventura Streets at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday resulted in the shearing off of a telephone pole and resulted in an elderly man being transported to Baystate Medical Center where he was being treated in the emergency room.
Police declined to release the man’s identity.
A person in a second vehicle was uninjured. There were no passengers, police said.
Police said East Street was closed at Ventura Street to the Red Bridge between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.