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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Unknown

Race : Unknown

Date : 04/20/2022

Location : Not Disclosed

City : Nashville

County : Davidson

State : Tennessee

Agency : Not Disclosed

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Person killed in FARS police-related roadway fatality; exact police involvement not publicly confirmed

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE: Not established. FARS identifies a 04/20/2022 Nashville/Davidson County roadway fatality with police-related coding, but the available public record located during this review does not establish that the death resulted from a police pursuit, attempted traffic stop, police-vehicle collision or other police-initiated roadway event.
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NARRATIVE:
On 04/20/2022, one person was killed in a motor-vehicle fatality recorded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatality Analysis Reporting System in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, with police-related coding. The identity of the person and the specific nature of the police involvement have not been established from the available public-facing sources.
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A same-date Nashville fatal collision initially appears to be a possible match. At approximately 10:15 a.m., 60-year-old Emmett P. Hewlett was driving a Toyota Corolla with 63-year-old Jessica Carney as a passenger at Murfreesboro Pike and Pineway Drive. Metropolitan Nashville police reported that Hewlett attempted to turn left from Pineway Drive onto Murfreesboro Pike and the Corolla was struck by an eastbound Volkswagen Passat.
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Hewlett and Carney were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where both died. Metropolitan Nashville police preliminarily attributed that collision to failure to yield while turning. Their official account does not describe a police pursuit, attempted traffic stop, police vehicle, emergency response, spike-strip deployment or other police action preceding the collision.
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More importantly, the Murfreesboro Pike collision resulted in two fatalities, while the supplied FARS police-related entry represents a single fatality. Without the underlying FARS crash and person identifiers establishing otherwise, there is insufficient evidence to identify either Hewlett or Carney as the police-related FARS decedent.
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A broader search of Nashville/Davidson County reporting for April 20 and the surrounding dates did not locate another publicly reported fatal pursuit or police-vehicle collision that can be confidently matched to the FARS entry. Searches for later identification, court proceedings and police-pursuit reporting likewise did not resolve the case.
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The decedent's identity, age, gender, race, roadway location, vehicle and role remain unresolved. The law-enforcement agency and exact action responsible for the FARS police-related coding also remain unknown.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
No law-enforcement agency or officer can presently be associated with this fatality beyond the underlying FARS police-related coding. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department should not be assigned as the responsible agency solely because it investigated the separate Murfreesboro Pike collision.
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SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/two-persons-have-died-due-todays-two-car-crash-murfreesboro-pike-pineway
https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars