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February 5, 2010

From a Letter to the State Journal Editor

To the Editor:
My husband was involved in an accident on a very dangerous curve on Harvieland Road the evening of Feb. 1.

A deputy from the Franklin County Sheriff's Department met the parties involved at a church parking lot as it was the safest place to go due to others traveling that area of the road.
The other driver informed my husband that he was an officer, possibly a former Vehicle Enforcement officer.

The deputy asked each driver what happened and then asked for their driver's licenses. He ran my husband's license, returned the other driver's information to him and when he handed my husband's license back to him, the deputy said that if he wrote a report it would state the accident was my husband's fault because he would take a fellow officer's word over my husband's any day.

This is not a "corrupt cop" Hollywood movie. This is an actual officer who took an oath to serve and protect, and that is exactly what he did. He protected one of his own.
By the way, my husband was fortunate enough to have two witnesses with him who heard everything the deputy said to him and that the accident was not his fault: a friend and God.
Marsha Perkins
Frankfort

This is not good. What is going on there. Where's the leadership?

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7.	Posted by Lloyd Christmas February 8, 2010
	the no fault that people refer to is the PIP persoanl injury protection. it says that no matter who is found at fault in a accident your own insurance company will pay for your first 10,000 of medical expenses...it has nothing to do with who is at fault in an accident

6.	Posted by Rocksolid February 7, 2010
	RangerDanger is correct Kentucky is a NO FAULT state..

5.	Posted by bstacy121 February 6, 2010
	I believe if it had of been me, I also would of taken pictures. Before I moved the cars. After the deputy made his statement I would of told him to call his shift supervisor to the scene and why I wanted him there. Let him write the report. Every officer on duty has a supervisor and you never have to settle for one officers decision, especially when you think favortisim is in question. I would have also followed up my complaint with the sheriff the next morning. Frankfort has a very good sheriff's Office and Police Dept. Maybe in his eyes he thought your husband was at fault.

4.	Posted by RangerDanger February 6, 2010
	Odd that he could state that anything was someone's fault... I thought we were a no-fault state.

3.	Posted by bjos February 6, 2010
	This corruption doesn't surprise me. I've seen and witnessed it firsthand. Several years ago, I (and several others) witnessed an accident where the driver was clearly at fault, going over the middle line and hitting a car head-on, causing the second driver serious injuries. When the police officer arrived, he found out that the at-fault driver was an off-duty cop and told him that he would "take care of it". I followed this incident for two months, and found out that the second driver (the one who was hit head-on) was held responsible, in part because of the officer's written report and testimony. The true at-fault driver was never held accountable.

2.	Posted by dumpthemayor February 6, 2010
	maybe it was your husbands fault, and the evidence showed it.