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Police say an off-duty New York City police officer has been killed in a motor cycle accident in Queens. It occurred on Linden Boulevard and 158th Street around 5 p.m. Monday. Police say Officer Curtis Johnson was riding a 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle when he collided with a Chrysler Concorde making a left turn. The 28-year-old officer was thrown from his bike, which then struck a Nissan Altima traveling on Linden Boulevard. Johnson was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. He worked at the 103rd Precinct in Queens and had been on the force for two years.

officers investigate accident on Utopia Parkway in Fresh Meadows, Queens that left a pedestrian on the sidewalk in critical condition Monday morning. A man strolling down the sidewalk on a tree-lined block of Fresh Meadows, Queens was critically injured Monday morning when he was struck by a pickup truck that jumped a curb, cops said.

A 40-year-old cyclist died after being run over by a Mercedes Benz van in Queens Sunday night, police say. The cyclist was riding west on Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park at about 9:30 p.m. when he sideswiped the passenger side of the black van, which was also traveled west on Rockaway Boulevard. The contact knocked the bicyclist to the ground, and the van ran him over, police say. Authorities say the van driver stopped and got out of the vehicle, then returned to the van and drove off without notifying police.

A 28-year-old woman was charged with manslaughter Monday - hours after she crashed her Infiniti sedan in Queens, killing the 29-year-old man sitting next to her, cops said. Sharlene Numa, of Roosevelt, Long Island, was traveling east on the Belt Parkway when she sideswiped a 2012 Mercedes and careened into a tree in Rosedale around 4:15 a.m., cops said. Her passenger went into cardiac arrest and died at 4:50 a.m. at Jamaica Hospital, cops said. Release of his identity was pending family notification. Numa was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, cops said.