A Louisville woman has been sentenced to prison after a wrong-way DUI crash on I-64 killed a married couple, making their two small children orphans.
Faith Turner, 26, was sentenced to 32 years in prison in the June 2021 deaths of Allen Hinkle, 44, and Dr. Rachelle Hinkle, 42, of Edinburgh, Indiana. Turner pled guilty to two counts of second-degree manslaughter, assault and DUI. She was originally charged with two counts of murder.
The Hinkles’ children, who were only slightly injured in the crash, were five-years-old and eight-months-old at the time of their parents’ deaths.
Turner, according to multiple media reports, had been at a wedding where she consumed several drinks prior to the crash. Her preliminary breath test registered a .19, more than twice the legal limit to drive.
The wreck occurred just after midnight on June 28, 2021, when Turner drove a BMW east in the westbound lanes of I-64 near the Third Street exit in Louisville. Turner struck the Hinkles’ Saturn Vue nearly head-on. The Vue was then hit by a tractor-trailer.
Rachelle Hinkle died at the scene while her husband died at University of Louisville Hospital two weeks later.
(Photo: The Hinkle family not long before the deadly crash, courtesy of GoFundMe.com)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
