this is bullshit…failed to yield when stopped at a light…
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IMPD: Officer in fatal motorcycle crash was impaired
An Indianapolis police officer tested at more than twice the legal limit for alcohol when he crashed his squad car into two motorcycles, killing one rider and critically injuring two others, according to a victim's relative.
Chief Paul Ciesielski confirmed Tuesday that Officer David Bisard tested positive for alcohol shortly after the crash that killed Eric Wells and injured Mary Mills and Kurt Weekly. Ciesielski and a spokeswoman with the Marion County prosecutor's office said additional details from the investigation will be released Wednesday.
IMPD officials declined to confirm Bisard's blood-alcohol level, but Wells' father said the family received word from the prosecutor's office that Bisard's blood-alcohol level tested at .19 percent. Under Indiana law, a driver is presumed drunk at .08 percent.
"We were absolutely numbed," Aaron Wells, 58, said. "You just never dream of a law enforcement officer who is sworn to protect the public being behind the wheel of a police cruiser at a high rate of speed, drunk."
The accident happened about 11:20 a.m. Friday at 56th Street and Brendon Way South Drive. Bisard, a canine officer, was responding to a request for assistance on a felony warrant and had his emergency lights and siren operating, police said.
Wells, 30, suffered head injuries and died. Weekly, 44, and Mills, 47, were injured and remained at Methodist Hospital Tuesday.
Bisard, who was slightly injured, was put on desk duty pending the results of the crash investigation.
Under IMPD policy, any officer who crashes a city-owned vehicle with even a trace of alcohol in his or her system faces a 30-day suspension for a first offense and termination for the second offense.
The department has been slow to release details of the crash and initially suggested the motorcyclists failed to yield to the officer.
"Several vehicles yielded and moved to the right shoulder{$326} however, three motorcycles were stopped in traffic in the left lane and did not move," Officer Brian K. Dixon, an IMPD spokesman, said in a statement released shortly after the crash. "The officer slowed, braked and swerved trying to avoid colliding with the motorcycles, but was unable to do so."
