LMPD chief to decide fate of officer speeding with no lights, siren in fatal April crash

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — An internal investigation into a Louisville Metro Police officer, who was driving 95 mph in a 45 mph zone on Fern Valley Road without her lights and siren on when she hit and killed a man, is now in the hands of LMPD Chief Paul Humphrey.

According to the investigation, officer Alyssa Begel was responding to an emergency call on April 2 after an EMS crew reported a patient inside an ambulance was being disorderly.

Dashcam video shows Begel swerving through traffic before the impact, when her cruiser hit a black Cadillac that had pulled onto Fern Valley Road. The driver, Charles Briscoe, 61, died at the scene. Begel was injured in the crash…

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