By Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — An NYPD cop was killed riding his motorcycle to work Wednesday morning in a fiery hit-and-run crash on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, police sources said.
The 30-year-old officer was heading in the direction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on the BQE when he struck by a box truck near the Atlantic Ave. exit in Cobble Hill around 8:50 a.m., police sources said. He was thrown onto the asphalt by the impact.
His motorcycle kept on going, hit a wall and burst into flames, video posted to social media shows.
The driver of the box truck never stopped, witnesses told police.
Medics rushed officer to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn but he could not be saved. The officer’s name was not immediately released.
The victim, who was wearing a helmet, was on his way to work when the crash occurred, according to police sources.
Cops shut down the westbound lanes of the expressway as they investigated the crash.
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