An Atlanta police officer was charged Wednesday with second-degree vehicular homicide — a misdemeanor — after a weekend collision left a local woman dead.
Police said Joshua Sieck, responding to a call for assistance, was traveling west on Cascade Road in unincorporated Fulton County Saturday afternoon when his cruiser collided with a BMW driven by Jacqueline Culp of Atlanta, who was traveling south on Fairburn Road.
Fulton County police spokeswoman Melissa Parker did not release details on the charge leveled against the 31-year-old officer.
Sieck was placed on paid administrative leave by Atlanta police "pending further determination by the chief of police regarding his status," according to a statement.
Sieck and Culp both had to be extricated from their vehicles after the crash. The 59-year-old victim died after being taken to Atlanta Medical Center. Sieck was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital but has since been released.
Kenyatta White, the driver of a third car that was also hit, told Channel 2 Action News that Sieck appeared to be driving too fast but she remembered few details about the crash.
"I saw the lights across the street and I looked over and the next thing I knew, there was the accident," White said. "It just happened so fast.
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