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Resolution to name road after Charleston Police Department officer Bertram

The Indiana Statehouse is still deciding whether or not they want to name the section of road the "Sgt. Ben Bertram Memorial Mile."
Officer Benton Bertram

SOUTHERN INDIANA (WHAS11) -- A mile-long stretch of State Road 3, near Scottsburg, Ind., could soon be getting renamed after a Charlestown Police Department officer was killed in the line of duty. 

The Indiana Statehouse is still deciding whether or not they want to name the section of road the "Sgt. Ben Bertram Memorial Mile."

Bertram was killed on this stretch of road in a  crash back in December.

He was a nine-year veteran of the Charlestown Police Department. 

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