NYPD Officer Brian Kessler ID’d As Victim In Wednesday Fatal Head-on Crash Involving Garbage Truck

BRONX, NY. (THECOUNT) — Brian Kessler, of New Rochelle, New York, has been identified as the off-duty NYPD officer killed Wednesday morning when he was involved in a head-on crash with a garbage truck.

Kessler, 28, was operating a vehicle following an overnight shift Wednesday morning after 8:00 a.m. when he struck a city Parks Department garbage truck head-on while traveling on Shore Road in Pelham Bay.

Kessler was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of multiple blunt force injuries consistent with the violent crash.

The NYPD officer had been on the job for less than a year and was assigned to the Police Service Area 8 of the Housing Bureau. Two members of the Parks Department in the garbage truck at the time of the crash were treated for minor injuries at the scene. source

The driver of the garbage truck remained at the scene and cooperated with officers. No one was cited in the collision.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Icy roads may have played a factor in the crash, according to multiple media reports.

Anyone with possible information on the crash is welcome to contact police at 911.

Pelham Bay is a middle class residential neighborhood in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. It is named for Pelham Bay Park, New York City’s largest park, which lies on the neighborhood’s northeastern border; and for Pelham Bay, a body of water in that park, according to Wikipedia.

New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2007, the city had a population of 73,260, making it the seventh-largest in the state of New York. As of the 2010 Census, the city’s population had increased to 77,062, Wikipedia.