An off-duty Guyana-born New York City police officer was killed in a motorcycle crash on Monday evening, according to the New York Daily News.
Royston Ferguson, 35, who is was formerly of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, loved riding, according to his fellow officer and friend Tabatha Foster.
The report said Ferguson posed proudly with his red Ducati motorcycle in a 2012 Facebook photo.
At the time of the fatal accident, Ferguson was riding the bike south on Rockaway Parkway in Flatlands. He slammed into the passenger side front door of a vehicle making a U-turn and was thrown from the bike.
The impact knocked his helmet off and he was rushed to the Brookdale University Hospital, where he died.
The driver of the vehicle, an off-duty 28-year-old school safety agent, was taken to Kings County Hospital where she was treated for neck and back pain. She was not immediately charged. A pair of three-year-old boys riding in her vehicle were uninjured.
According to the report, Ferguson would have marked 10 years on the force in July. He worked out of the Patrol Borough Brooklyn North command. “He was an amazing officer,” Foster said.
