Woman drives over curb into crowd of people then begins 'dancing' for someone videotaping her: Police

A pistillate drove drunk into a assemblage of radical successful a Kentucky parking batch during a nighttime retired earlier continuing down a one-way street, authorities say.

Kaydence Carpenter, 20, faces respective charges, including operating a conveyance nether the influence, reckless driving, and second-degree assault, Lexington CBS affiliate WKYT reported. She bonded retired of the Fayette County Detention Center but appeared successful tribunal this week, wherever details of the allegations against her were laid bare.

Lexington Police Officer Amelia Hardy testified that she was moving successful the aboriginal greeting hours of March 22 erstwhile she heard thing successful a parking lot. A radical of radical was gathered astatine Short and Mill streets successful downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

"I observed a achromatic rider car thrust implicit the yellow-marked curb into a assemblage of radical that were each connected the broadside wall," she said, detailing however 4 radical approached officers, describing injuries to their heads, legs, and adjacent perchance paralysis.

Video of the incidental showed a radical of radical surrounding a achromatic sedan, which reversed earlier accelerating and appearing to crook somewhat into a crowd, knocking 2 radical to the ground. The car continued driving down what appeared to beryllium a engaged metropolis street.

It seemingly was a one-way street, and the operator was going the incorrect way.

Officers arrested Carpenter, saying she smelled similar intoxicant and had slurred code and that they recovered a fake ID successful her car.

"She showed impaired judgement and relaxed inhibitions," Hardy said. "She began dancing for an idiosyncratic who was video taping her."

Carpenter's attorney, however, pointed retired that his lawsuit was surrounded, was punched, and that 1 of the different radical appeared to person a gun, per WKYT. He noted that Hardy did not spot immoderate of this, lone the events erstwhile Carpenter began driving implicit the curb.

The lawsuit is moving to a expansive jury.

Law&Crime reached retired to the Lexington Police Department for much information.