LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Dec. 24 marked seven years since a Louisville Metro Police detective was hit and killed by an impaired driver on I-64 near the Belvedere.
On Tuesday, Christmas Eve, a memorial service was held in memory of Det. Deidre Mengedoht.
Mengedoht was conducting a traffic stop when the driver of a Metro Sewer District Tanker Truck hit the back of her patrol car, which slammed into another vehicle, causing the car to catch fire. She died there at the scene…