No charges filed against driver in officer death
The driver CINCINNATI — who fatally struck Colerain police officer Dale Woods last month will not face criminal charges, WCPO reports.
Last week, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he didn’t believe his office could successfully pros- ecute the driver due to lack of evidence of impairment or excessive speed.
While working a crash scene, Woods was hit by the driver’s pickup truck and died five days later at University of Cincinnati Medi- cal Center.
Authorities recreated the scene and drove a truck simi- lar to the one that hit Woods, and used a fire engine to simulate the misty rain of that night. Deters said Cincinnati police were incredibly thorough with their investigation and spent a lot of time on the case, WCPO reports.
Deters said there is no evidence of negligence, and believes the driver may have been distracted by the crash scene.