MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee man has been charged with being drunk while driving a truck involved in a traffic crash that resulted in the death of a former medical examiner in Memphis, prosecutors said.
Courtney T. Kincaid, 41, has been indicted on counts of vehicular homicide and drunken driving in a September crash that killed Dr. Karen Chancellor, the Shelby County district attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Chancellor, 64, was named Shelby County’s chief medical examiner in 2004 and served for nearly 14 years. She also served as deputy chief medical examiner for Tennessee and had been associate chief medical examiner for North Carolina.
Chancellor was driving her SUV on a Memphis highway when a pickup truck pulling a trailer with lawn equipment crossed the median, went into the air and landed on top of her vehicle, investigators said.
Kincaid was speeding and had a blood alcohol count of .267, authorities said.