07/27/2014 - Around 1800 hours on the evening of Sunday, July 27, 2014 the Whitman Fire Department responded to a reported motor vehicle accident in the area of 700 Franklin Street. Companies arrived to find a single vehicle accident where a car struck a telephone pole. One victim was transported from the scene via Whitman Ambulance-247 to the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. National Grid was requested to respond to check the pole that had been struck.