New York Daily News

90-mph crash costs officer a plum post

- Rocco Parascando­la, Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau

A HANDPICKED aide of a top police commander was placed on modified duty after he crashed his car driving up to 90 mph on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.

Terence Williams, 30, was stripped of his gun and shield and transferre­d from his post as the community affairs officer at Police Service Area 1 following his Dec. 7 crash, records show.

Williams was driving his 2013 Infiniti in the right lane when it struck a guardrail, spun out of control and overturned at 3 a.m., according to a police record of the crash obtained by The News.

“It is estimated that the vehicle was traveling between 80 to 90 mph,” the report says.

Williams, who did not respond to a call seeking comment, was taken to a hospital for treatment, a police source said.

The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is probing the accident as well as the actions of the responding officers at the crash scene, according to a source.

“This is an ongoing criminal and internal investigat­ion,” a department spokesman said. “Chemical tests were administer­ed following the incident.”

Williams, from East New York, Brooklyn, was tapped as the neighborho­od coordinati­on officer by Deputy Inspector Neteis Gilbert, commanding officer of Police Service Area 1, which covers 19 NYCHA developmen­ts in South Brooklyn.

In that role, Williams served as one of PSA 1’s eight community liaisons.

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