Marcus Solis reporting live
Eyewitness News
Updated 1 hr 8 mins ago
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- One person is dead and three other pedestrians were injured after an SUV driven by an off-duty police officer jumped a curb Saturday.
According to the New York City Police Department, a silver Dodge Durango struck a group of people around 3:15 a.m. on Bedford Avenue and North Eighth Street.
One person was impaled on a wrought iron fence; a woman's leg was seriously injured.
The driver, off-duty NYPD officer Nicolas Badka, 28, is under arrest and suspended. He is charged with DWI, but additional charges are expected. Badka is assigned to the Manhattan Transit Task Force.
He was appointed last year. According to the NYPD, Badka refused a breath test at the scene.
Police said the driver was taken, along with the three surviving victims, to Cornell hospital.
Further charges in the case are pending.