Off-duty NYPD cop killed in fiery motorcycle crash on way home from work on expressway: cops, sources
An off-duty NYPD cop was killed in a fiery motorcycle crash on his way home from work in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, cops and law enforcement sources said.
The 30-year-old cop – assigned to the midnight tour at the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn – was riding a Yamaha R1 motorcycle on the westbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway around 8:30 a.m. when he was struck by a box truck driver near Exit 27, for Atlantic Avenue, authorities and sources said.
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Footage obtained by the Post shows the cyclist in the moments before the crash, whizzing along the expressway in the outermost lanes in the direction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
The box truck driver left the scene, and it’s possible the driver may not have even known he’d hit someone, the sources said.
Footage posted on X by Williamsburg News shows the cop lying lifeless on the road as his motorcycle went up in flames feet away.
The officer was taken to NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
His name was not officially released pending family notification. Online records show he joined the NYPD in February of 2021.
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