By Bruce Schreiner
The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE - A Louisville police officer responding to a possible kidnapping collided with another vehicle and then slammed into a bus stop shelter at a busy intersection Tuesday.

Police said one man was killed and two others, including the police officer, were injured.

The crash occurred shortly before 11 a.m. while the officer was heading to the scene of a possible kidnapping nearby, said police spokesman Dwight Mitchell.

Mitchell said that when the officer reached the intersection he collided with a Ford Explorer that had one person inside. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene, Mitchell said.

A bicyclist was injured as well as the officer. Both were taken to University of Louisville Hospital.

The cause of the crash was under investigation.

The officer was identified as Eugene Fey Jr., who has been with the police department since April 1992, said police spokeswoman Helene Kramer.

Fey has had no disciplinary actions against him in his 11 years on the police force and has received several commendations, she said.

Kramer said police were still investigating whether the cruiser's lights and siren were on when the crash occurred.

"It will be several days before we find out definitively what was going on," Mitchell said.

But two people who were working near the crash scene said they never heard any siren or saw police lights flashing.

The roof of the sport utility vehicle involved in the wreck was caved in at the intersection a few blocks north of Churchill Downs.

Glass and metal littered the area and a short distance away, the police car straddled the curb and the street.