Yonkers Cops 'Pretty Banged Up' After Fatal Crash

YONKERS, N.Y. – Two Yonkers police officers remain hospitalized after a head-on collision Saturday morning that left a White Plains man dead.  

Keith Olsen, president of the Yonkers Police Benevolent Association, said one officer underwent surgery Saturday for a broken femur while another had a broken tibia and bones in his foot repaired during a Sunday operation.

At least one of the officers will have to undergo a second operation, Olsen said.

“They are pretty banged up,” he said Monday. “It’s going to be a while before they get better.”

The two police officers were injured early Saturday morning when a Honda Civic driven by 28-year-old Brandon Turner slammed into their cruiser, police said.

Turner was allegedly fleeing another Yonkers police car who was pursuing the White Plains man after he refused to pull over.

In an issued statement, police said officers heard what appeared to be gunshots around 1:30 a.m. and then saw a 1999 green Honda Civic driven by Turner flee the scene, police said.

Turner was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the street as he sped through Getty Square before colliding with the cruiser on South Broadway, police said. He was declared dead at the scene.

While police are still awaiting the results of the toxicology report, “every indication is that he had been drinking significantly,” Olsen said.

Turner’s relatives told 1010 WINS radio he had been drinking at a cousin’s wedding earlier in the evening and was clearly intoxicated.  They expressed remorse about letting him get behind the wheel of the car, according to the report.

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