An off-duty NYPD cop was killed in a fiery motorbike crash on his means house from work in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, cops and legislation enforcement sources mentioned.
The 30-year-old cop – assigned to the midnight tour on the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn – was using a Yamaha R1 motorbike on the westbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway round 8:30 a.m. when he was struck by a field truck driver close to Exit 27, for Atlantic Avenue, authorities and sources mentioned.
Footage obtained by the Submit exhibits the bike owner within the moments earlier than the crash, whizzing alongside the expressway within the outermost lanes within the course of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
The field truck driver left the scene, and it's doable the motive force could not have even identified he'd hit somebody, the sources mentioned.
Footage posted on X by Williamsburg News exhibits the cop mendacity lifeless on the highway as his motorbike went up in flames ft away.
The officer was taken to NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital, the place he succumbed to his accidents.
His identify was not formally launched pending household notification. On-line information present he joined the NYPD in February of 2021.
