A man serving 10 years in prison for causing the death of a Somerset beauty pageant winner in a DUI car accident in 2005 was denied parole by parole board in Frankfort Friday.

Ryan West, 22, of Somerset, was originally charged with murder, DUI and two counts of assault resulting from the June 2005 single-car accident that killed passenger Brittany Shoap, 20. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter.

West was questioned extensively by the parole board, which took less than five minutes to make its decision. West was asked for details about how much alcohol he consumed before that crash, and talked for the first time about another fatal crash he was involved in when he was a juvenile. West admitted during that McCreary County wreck he had been drinking.

Shoap had won the Miss Taylor County Fair beauty pageant just two days prior to the accident to qualify for the Miss Kentucky County Fair pageant.

Police say West, who hit a utility pole at a high rate of speed, causing the car to roll into an embankment, had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit when tested more than two hours after the accident.

Shoap was a student at Somerset Community College, where she majored in early childhood education. In her biography for the Miss Taylor County pageant, Shoap said she hoped to earn her degree, work with disabled children and start a family of her own.

Two other passengers were thrown from the vehicle in the crash and were hospitalized. Shoap rode in the back seat and wore a seat belt, he said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities later determined she died of blunt force trauma.

West is set to be released from prison in 2012.