WKYT
NELSON COUNTY, Ky. — It started as a routine day at work, but it ended with a central Kentucky truck driver being hailed a hero. Nelson County sheriff’s deputies say he helped save a jailer’s life along the Blue Grass Parkway.
On Wednesday afternoon, Spencer County Jailer Darrell Herndon was attacked in his car by a prisoner while driving on that parkway near Bardstown.
Officials with the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office say the juvenile inmate slipped out of his restraints and somehow managed to get through the safety screen that was between himself and Herndon. Once he got past the safety screen, he began choking the jailer from behind. Herndon was able to pull his cruiser over on the side of the roadway near mile marker 15, in order to protect himself.
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