A Seymour man has been charged in Scott Superior Court with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after an accident in Austin which injured him and four nine-year-old boys. Irineo Aguilar, 22, reportedly admitted being the driver of the 1995 Dodge Saturn that wrecked on July 16 on State Road 256 East about 70 feet west of the highway’s intersection with Linden Drive. Capt. Paul Clute of the Austin Police Department responded to the accident, which occurred at 5:45 p.m. that Friday. Arriving at the scene, he said he saw an adult male, Aguilar, sitting on the road while three of the boys were standing in a ditch to the south of S.R. 256. A fourth boy, later identified as Allan Nala, was found unresponsive and face down in the northside ditch with what the officer said was a compound fracture of his left leg. The remaining three boys, Claudio Hernandez, Antonio Guerta and Jorge Preciado, were bruised and scratched from the accident as was Aguilar, who suffered facial injuries as well. All of the children were from Seymour. Open beer cans were found in and around the wrecked car, the officer’s report stated.

New public hearings have been scheduled for 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14, regarding the controversial Scottsburg Renewable Energy Center proposed for property on the south edge of Scottsburg.