A wet roadway is blamed for a crash early Tuesday morning of a Fairfield Police Department patrol car driven by Cpl. James Green.

The officer was taken to East Texas Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries and released.

The wreck occurred at 4:23 a.m. in the 500 block of E. Commerce Street where there is a curve in the road.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Michael Adams, who investigated the wreck, reports that Green was westbound when his patrol car hydroplaned on the wet street in a curve of the street.

The patrol car veered off the road to the right, grazing a mailbox and hitting a utility pole head-on, snapping the pole.

Adams reports that the road was closed until electric lines that dropped onto the road were cleared.

Green was taken to ETMC by Fairfield EMS.