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Man arrested after driving pickup truck into house

BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) – A man is out on bail after driving into a house while intoxicated.

According to police, the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department responded to a vehicle crash at 12:45 p.m. on Friday.

They found a heavily damaged pick-up truck on the 8000 block of South SR58.

Upon further investigation, they discovered that the truck had driven off the road, drove around 400 feet in a ditch, broke an electrical pole, hit an open drain and stopped after hitting a house.

No one was in the house when the accident occurred. The power was knocked out for a couple hours but it has been restored.

Police arrested the driver of the pickup truck, 22-year-old Jacob Meredith, with an OWI.

He was released from jail on a $5,000 bond.

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