NYPD officer dead after motorcycle crashes on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WABC) -- A New York City police officer was killed in a traffic wreck Monday evening.

Around 7 p.m., police responded to Rockaway Parkway between Avenue J and Flatlands Avenue where 35-year old Royston Ferguson was unconscious and lying in the road.

He was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was off duty at the time.

He had been driving a 2008 Ducati motorcycle southbound on the parkway when he hit a 2015 Kia Sedona driven by a 28-year-old NYPD school safety agent. The Kia had been traveling northbound on the parkway and was making a U-turn across the double yellow divider lines to go south on Rockaway Parkway.

The motorcycle stuck the passenger side front door of the Kia, and Ferguson was ejected. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.

The operator of the Kia was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. Two other passengers, 3-year-old boys were uninjured. There are no arrests.

The investigation is ongoing. No charges were immediately filed.

Officer Ferguson was assigned to Brooklyn North patrol bureau, and would have marked ten years on the force in July.