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June 21, 2012

Woman faces drunken-driving charge

TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse City woman faces a felony drunken driving charge.

Susan Marie Fenton, 48, is charged with third-offense drunken driving and failure to stop after a collision. A Grand Traverse sheriff's deputy arrested her last week.

A man told deputies Fenton pulled out in front of him on Silver Lake Road June 11, court records show. He hit her, and she drove off. A woman who witnessed the crash called police and followed Fenton's vehicle.

A deputy said Fenton showed "obvious signs of intoxication." A blood-alcohol test registered 0.31, nearly four times Michigan's legal limit of 0.08.

Fenton has drunken driving convictions from 1991 and 2007, records show.

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