The funny man Tracy Morgan in a Critical 6 car accident.... Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was in intensive care Saturday after the limousine bus he was riding in was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on the New Jersey Turnpike, state police said. The vehicle carrying the former Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock cast member and six others was involved in a six-vehicle accident on the turnpike near Cranbury Township at about 1 a.m. Saturday, Sgt. First Class Greg Williams told The Associated Press. Williams said one person died in the crash that occurred in the northbound lanes of the turnpike near mile marker 71.5. A spokesman at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey, says a patient named Tracy Morgan is in critical condition there. There was no immediate word on other injuries from the accident. Williams says two tractor-trailers, a sports utility vehicle and two cars, along with Morgans limo bus, were involved in the accident. There is no immediate word on the cause of the pileup. The 45-year-old New York City native joined Saturday Night Live in 1996 and was on the sketch-comedy program for seven years before leaving to star in The Tracy Morgan Show in 2003. That show lasted just one season. In 2006, Morgan found a long-running role in NBCs hit show 30 Rock, which was created by SNL co-star Tina Fey. Morgan grew up fatherless, one of five siblings, in a blighted section of Brooklyn, where he helped raise and support the family. He once called his gift for being funny a defense mechanism for his miserable circumstances. As a teen he started doing comedy on the streets to supplement the familys welfare income. In late 2010, Morgan had a kidney transplant. The New Jersey Turnpike was closed for more than five hours after the crash and was reopened at about 6:30 a.m. Yahoo TV
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:22:43 +0000
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