Southbury Road (Route 67) was closed Wednesday morning between Southbury and Roxbury after a car struck and broke a utility pole near Transylvania Road intersection at 1:01 a.m.
The driver, Renee M. Baker, of Oxford, was uninjured in the crash and told police that she had swerved for a deer in the roadway and then struck the telephone pole off the right shoulder of the road, police said.
Connecticut Light & Power and AT&T crews as well as Roxbury EMS responded to the scene.
The road was reopened by early afternoon Wednesday.