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ALLEGED TEEN DRUNKEN DRIVER CRASHES AT NORTHEASTERN BEFORE START OF SCHOOL

(Fountain City, IN)--A suspected teenage intoxicated driver crashed at Northeastern schools shortly before students began arriving for the day Tuesday.  Scanner traffic indicated that a vehicle went into a pole at Northeastern and that the driver had fled the scene.  That driver was later identified as 18-year-old James Byrge.  Byrge was taken to Reid Health to be checked out but was not seriously injured.  He has bonded out of jail.