A wrong-way driver first struck an off-duty NYPD officer before fatally plowing into groom-to-be Kirk Walker, law enforcement sources said.
The cop called 911 after the early Saturday hit-and-run near Canal Street and chased after the driver’s pickup truck along the West Side Highway until he lost sight of it, sources said.
Soon afterward, the truck smashed into a Dodge Challenger head-on, killing Walker, 38, and his cousin Rob McLaurin, who were celebrating Walker’s bachelor party, police and sources said.
The pickup truck’s driver took off after the crash, while police took a 22-year-old passenger into custody.
