A truck driver has been charged in the hit-and-run that killed an off-duty police officer on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Aug. 27.

Carlos Toribio, a 30-year-old Manhattan resident, was arrested on Wednesday evening, police said, hours after the fiery crash. He was charged with leaving the scene of a crash that resulted in death as well as driving an unregistered vehicle and driving without a license plate.

According to the NYPD, the officer, whose name has not yet been released, was riding his motorcycle on the westbound BQE when he collided with the truck near Exit 27 in Cobble Hill just before 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 27. The officer was thrown from the motorcycle, which went up in flames, video of the incident shows, and Toribio fled — possibly without realizing he had hit anyone, per

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