Drunk off-duty NYPD cop plows onto Brooklyn sidewalk, killing one
DALE W. EISINGERELLEN MOYNIHANLARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2016, 9:13 PM
Bystanders corralled a drunken off-duty cop after his speeding SUV killed a Brooklyn pedestrian and horribly injured three of his college pals in a gruesome wreck, cops and eyewitnesses said.
Officer Nicholas Batka’s vehicle was seen swerving in the seconds before impact. His runaway SUV tore the leg off one victim and left another impaled on a fence, witnesses said.
“The EMTs had to get a saw to remove the man impaled on the railing,” said witness Jaminah Kang, 35. “Another man (looked) like he took a chain saw to the knee.”
The inebriated second-year cop flashed his badge and slipped into his SUV’s passenger’s seat about 3 a.m. on Saturday as the mangled victims writhed in agony on a bloodstained sidewalk in Williamsburg.
A cell phone video captured a man in a red shirt wagging a menacing finger at Batka, keeping the SUV door shut tight and the off-duty cop pinned inside.
“Don’t let him get out!” someone else shouted. “He’s going to run away!”
The sloshed cop was trapped inside the SUV — on the driver’s side by a utility pole he crashed into and on the passenger side by the enraged onlookers.
A 21-year-old man died at Bellevue Hospital after Batka lost control and the gray 2012 SUV Dodge Durango careened off Bedford Ave. just after making a right-hand turn from N. Eighth St.
Batka was charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, three counts of assault, driving while intoxicated, driving with impaired ability and driving on a sidewalk, police said.
Witnesses described a nightmarish scene of chaos and carnage in the darkness once the SUV jumped the curb and plowed into the group walking together along the sidewalk.
“I ran over and this girl's leg was in half,” said Ryan Carpenter, 27, who was heading home when he spied the bloody crash scene.
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DALE W. EISINGERELLEN MOYNIHANLARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2016, 9:13 PM
Bystanders corralled a drunken off-duty cop after his speeding SUV killed a Brooklyn pedestrian and horribly injured three of his college pals in a gruesome wreck, cops and eyewitnesses said.
Officer Nicholas Batka’s vehicle was seen swerving in the seconds before impact. His runaway SUV tore the leg off one victim and left another impaled on a fence, witnesses said.
“The EMTs had to get a saw to remove the man impaled on the railing,” said witness Jaminah Kang, 35. “Another man (looked) like he took a chain saw to the knee.”
The inebriated second-year cop flashed his badge and slipped into his SUV’s passenger’s seat about 3 a.m. on Saturday as the mangled victims writhed in agony on a bloodstained sidewalk in Williamsburg.
A cell phone video captured a man in a red shirt wagging a menacing finger at Batka, keeping the SUV door shut tight and the off-duty cop pinned inside.
“Don’t let him get out!” someone else shouted. “He’s going to run away!”
The sloshed cop was trapped inside the SUV — on the driver’s side by a utility pole he crashed into and on the passenger side by the enraged onlookers.
A 21-year-old man died at Bellevue Hospital after Batka lost control and the gray 2012 SUV Dodge Durango careened off Bedford Ave. just after making a right-hand turn from N. Eighth St.
Batka was charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, three counts of assault, driving while intoxicated, driving with impaired ability and driving on a sidewalk, police said.
Witnesses described a nightmarish scene of chaos and carnage in the darkness once the SUV jumped the curb and plowed into the group walking together along the sidewalk.
“I ran over and this girl's leg was in half,” said Ryan Carpenter, 27, who was heading home when he spied the bloody crash scene.
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