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Last updated on Monday, February 9, 2015
(HOPE) - A Hope man is facing charges of child neglect after a vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon.
Bartholomew County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 33-year-old Michael G. Furst after the one-vehicle accident on County Road 525 E, just north of State Road 7 in Elizabethtown.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they found the vehicle empty.
Witnesses told authorities that they saw the driver walking towards CERAland with a small child. Deputies found Furst and his two-year-old daughter outside of the CERAland gym. H
He allegedly admitted to deputies that he was driving the vehicle when it crashed.
Furst was arrested for child neglect endangerment and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
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