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 Morgan's limo bus, were involved in the accident. There is no
immediate word on the cause of the pileup.
The
45-year-old Bronx 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 NBC's hit show "30 Rock,"
which was created by SNL co-star Tina Fey.
The New Jersey Turnpike was closed for more than five hours after the crash and was reopened at about 6:30 a.m.
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