Driver faces six charges after crashes in Scott, Greene counties - Jacksonville Journal-Courier

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David C.L. Bauer

April 18, 2021Updated: April 18, 2021 5:25 p.m.

MANCHESTER — A Roodhouse man was arrested Sunday on six charges, including driving under the influence of drugs, after two crashes on U.S. 67 near the Scott and Greene counties line.

Robert Sprague, 48, of Roodhouse suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crashes, which happened about 6:15 a.m. Sunday.

According to a preliminary report by Illinois State Police, Sprague was going north when his vehicle hit several barrels and road signs on the Scott County side. The driver left the scene. A short distance later, he went off the road in Greene County and his vehicle became disabled in a ditch, according to state police.

In addition to the driving under the influence charge, Sprague was charged with leaving the scene of a property damage crash, improper lane use, failing to reduce speed to avoid a crash, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, and possession of cannabis.

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He joined the staff after eight years as an assistant metro editor for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.

The Cincinnati native has worked as an editor and managing editor for newspapers in Ohio and Kentucky. He is a former adjunct instructor of journalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and has worked at several radio stations in Ohio as both a news director and a disc jockey.

He has won a number of awards for his reporting and editing, including a national Southern Newspaper Publishers Association award for investigative reporting as part of a team of reporters. He is a graduate of the Bowling Green (Ky.) Citizens Police Academy and of the FBI Citizens Academy, is a Kentucky Colonel and is among those listed on the Wall of Tolerance at the Civil Rights Memorial Center.

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