One NYPD officer was killed, and eight other officers were injured, when a police van crashed Sunday morning in the Bronx.
The officer who died was identified as Michael Williams, 25, of the Bronx, police said. He was taken to Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx where he was pronounced dead from his injuries just before 6 a.m., police said.
The nine officers were in a marked police van that crashed just after 5 a.m. on westbound Bruckner Boulevard near Bryant Avenue in the Hunts Point neighborhood, Lt. Thomas Antonetti said.
The other eight officers, some seriously injured, were taken to Lincoln, St. Barnabas Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center.
The officers were heading to special detail for Monday's General Assembly at the United Nations and a climate change march in Manhattan Sunday when the van crashed off the side road, police said.
No other vehicles were involved. Police are investigating what caused the van to crash into either the center divider or the embankment on the right shoulder.
In a comment on his Twitter page, NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III said 'our hearts are heavy this morning after a tragic police van accident. We pray for the [police officer] we lost, and for a quick recovery of those injured.'
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