Here is a snapshot of the car just before hitting the pole. This is from a Hikvision DS-2CD2032I camera with a 12mm lens. The car does appear to have damage on the drivers side of car.
That damage on the front fender is due to hyper-extending the drivers door... I've seen this a thousand times.
Likely they had similar "backing up" problems while the door was open once also.
Ugh.