Manhattan, NY +West Side Hwy Tarffic Alert+
Manhattan, NY +West Side Hwy Tarffic Alert+ A fatal motor vehicle accident that happened early this morning involving an off-duty mos on a motorcycle on the northbound of the West Side Highway and 125th Street has the highway closed down due to the investigation and a search for the weapon that fell off the mos, all lanes remain closed delays are on both sides between the George Washington Bridge and 125th Street.
U/D: 07:55
NYPD calling for a level one mobilization to the area of the scene of the accident.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 8/14/2006 07:39:00 AM
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At 5:20 PM,
VOS IZ NEIAS said…
In a possible case of road rage, an off-duty police officer was killed early Monday when his motorcycle was rear-ended by a suspected drunken driver who was flashing a blue emergency light sometimes used by volunteer firefighters, police said.
It was unclear if the driver of the sport utility vehicle -- registered in New Jersey -- was a firefighter, police said.
Police said the incident began at about 12:15 a.m. when the officer, Eric Concepcion, and a companion, also on a motorcycle, pulled up next to the SUV on the Henry Hudson parkway in Manhattan.
At that point, "Words may have been exchanged," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters.
The suspect, with lights flashing, followed Concepcion and may have "tried to pull him over" before striking the rear of his motorcycle and running him over, Kelly said.
The suspect was taken into custody after testing above the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.08 percent, police said. Charges were pending.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that Concepcion, who was assigned to the Yankee Stadium detail, left behind a wife and two daughters, ages 1 and 4.
"It breaks all our hearts," the mayor said.
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