Off-duty NYPD officer killed in crash while driving to work
By: Craig Schneider & Robert Brodsky, Newsday
NEW YORK — An off-duty New York City police officer killed Wednesday morning in a two-car accident in Lynbrook has been identified as Vincent Persaud of West Babylon, authorities said.
Persaud, 31, who was stationed in the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway, was on his way to work, driving west on Peninsula Boulevard at 6:45 a.m. when his car collided with another vehicle near the Hempstead Avenue intersection, said Lynbrook Police Lt. Charles McCartney.
Persaud’s car then went off the road, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said during an unrelated news conference in Mineola. He was pronounced dead at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream. The NYPD said Persaud suffered severe head trauma.
