{"id":17380,"date":"2023-05-04T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=17380"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:32:20","slug":"one-man-killed-in-overnight-crash-near-big-butler-fairgrounds-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=17380","title":{"rendered":"One man killed in overnight crash near Big Butler Fairgrounds &#8211; WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">UPDATE 6:34 a.m.: A 65-year-old New Castle man died in an overnight crash in Butler County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">James Barge was identified by state police as the victim of a two-vehicle crash that occurred around 1:25 a.m. on New Castle Road near Unionville Road in Franklin Township.  Barge, who was the driver and sole occupant of a Toyota Camry, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">The driver of the other vehicle, a 24-year-old woman from Fombell who was taken to a local hospital from the scene, will be charged with vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. as reported by the state police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">The woman was driving a Honda CRV when she allegedly crossed the center line and center turn lane and struck Barge&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">___________<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">ORIGINAL STORY: A road in Butler County is blocked hours after a crash that sent at least one person to an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">The crash happened after 1 a.m. at Route 422 and Unionville Road in Franklin Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Butler State Police said troopers are still at the scene, which is near the Big Butler Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">This is a developing story.  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James Barge was identified by state police as the victim of a two-vehicle crash that occurred around 1:25 a.m. on New Castle Road near Unionville Road in Franklin Township. Barge, who was the driver and sole occupant of a Toyota Camry, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle, a 24-year-old woman from Fombell who was taken to a local hospital from the scene, will be charged with vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. as reported by the state&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17382,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions\/17382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}