On Friday, June 26, 2015 at approximately 2:30 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officers were dispatched to the intersection of S. West Street and W. Washington Street on the report of a serious bodily injury accident involving a motorcycle. When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive female victim near a utility pole with significant trauma. EMS personnel arrived a short time later and pronounced the victim deceased on the scene.
According to witness statements, the motorcycle operator, later identified as an off-duty IMPD officer, was traveling westbound on W. Washington Street when his rear passenger was thrown from the motorcycle. The officer navigated a turn and the passenger was thrown from the bike and struck a utility pole. The officer continued westbound skidding several hundred yards from the victim.
He was transported to Eskenazi hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Investigators do not believe that speed or alcohol contributed to the accident; however the officer will submit to a blood draw as is standard with accidents involving serious bodily injury or death.
The deceased will be positively identified by the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Once the decedent’s next of kin is notified, the identity of the passenger will be released.