ACCIDENTS

3/3/25

A Wayne City man was injured after when his pickup truck hit a deer on the 161 extension Friday night.

31-year-old James Burge had just passed another vehicle at a high rate of speed when he struck a deer.  The pickup then left the road, jumped a ditch, traveled through the corner of a field, crossed Johnson Road, went up an embankment, and then through a fence before stopping in a field.

Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps says Burge left with a family member who may have taken him for medical treatment.

The accident was reported at 9:20 Friday night.

On Thursday at approximately 4:35 pm Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report of a vehicle striking a utility pole in Cisne.  On arrival Deputies made contact with Davide Boone Dillon Vaughn, 37 of Xenia. 

After an investigation Vaughn was placed under arrest for driving under the influence and cited for Failure to reduce speed to avoid and accident.