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Tracy Morgan Returns to Saturday Night Live in October

FILE - In this April 9, 2014 file photo, actor Tracy Morgan attends the FX Networks Upfront premiere screening of "Fargo" at the SVA Theater in New York. On Saturday June 7, 2014, a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike slammed into the back of a limousine van carrying actor-comedian Morgan and several others on the way back from a Performance in Delaware. James McNair, a fellow comedian and mentor of Morgan’s was killed, and Morgan and two other companions suffered serious injuries. The accident shone a spotlight on the issue of driver fatigue after a criminal complaint alleged Wal-Mart driver Kevin Roper hadn’t slept in more than 24 hours before the crash. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

After experiencing a near death accident in which one of his friends was killed, Tracy Morgan is continuing the road back with an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 17th.

Morgan’s limo was struck by a Walmart truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on June 7, 2014, killing comedian James McNair and critically injuring Morgan and three others. In early June, Morgan appeared on TV for the first time since the accident, telling the Today Show that he doesn’t remember the actual crash.

“When I got home, it really hit me,” he said. “Every day I would just watch the accident on YouTube. One day I saw [McNair’s] funeral on YouTube, and I lost it for about a week.”

Morgan, who suffered extensive physical and neurological injuries from the crash, sued Walmart and received an undisclosed settlement in May. The truck’s driver—who hadn’t slept in 28 hours at the time of the accident—faces charges of death by auto.

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Tracy Morgan Speaks to Media For First Time Since Fatal Auto Accident – Video

Photo: Richard Harbus/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Mr. Morgan was seen exiting his home in Cresskill, N.J., walking with the aid of a walker. As he entered a black Lincoln Navigator, Morgan made eye contact with photographers and showed a victory symbol with his trademark smile. As the car drove closer to the photographers, Tracy was asked how was he doing.

“I’m OK, I feel strong,” he said.

“Love you, thank you very much. Appreciate it,” he added, to applause from the small gathering.

Morgan’s friend, James McNair was killed in the accident when a Wal-Mart truck slammed into the vehicle they were traveling in. Morgan suffered a badly broken leg and several broken ribs.

Tracy Morgan has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart.

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Tracy Morgan’s Mom Turned Away at The Hospital

Tracy Morgan’s estranged mother says she was barred from seeing her son at the hospital.

Alicia Warden has spoken out about the way she was treated in an interview with TMZ, claiming Morgan’s fiancee Megan Wollover is working against her.

Although the comedian and his mother had been estranged for more than a decade, Warden told the news site that no one informed her of her son’s car accident or the fact that he had been transported to hospital.

Warden – whose relationship with Morgan has been described as strained – told TMZ that she heard about it on television but when she tried to see her son in the hospital, she was met with resistence by Megan and hospital security and had to leave.

But she came back the next day and was allowed into the room where Morgan lay unconscious for five minutes and in the company of a pastor and a few friends.

‘All I wanted was for our family to be alone with him,’ Warden told TMZ. ‘I wanted to pray over him and couldn’t do that because so many people were in the room.’

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Tracy Morgan update: Walmart says it will take ‘full responsibility’ if their truck caused fatal crash

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured in a crash on the Turnpike on Saturday. (Star-Ledger file)

The top executive at Walmart admitted that one of his company’s trucks was involved in a six-vehicle crash Saturday that killed one man and critically injured three others, including comedian and actor Tracy Morgan.

“The facts are continuing to unfold,” CEO Bill Simon said Saturday. “If it’s determined that our truck caused the accident, Walmart will take full responsibility.”

James McNair, a 62-year-old comedian from Peekskill, known as Jimmy Mack, was killed in the crash, authorities said Saturday. McNair also wrote for Morgan and was one of his closest friends.

According to a Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital spokesman, Morgan, 45, assistant Jeffrey Millea, 36, and comic Ardie Fuqua, 43, remain in critical condition this morning.

Truck driver Kevin Roper, 35, has been charged with one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto in the accident, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Roper, accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in to State Police on Saturday night, according to the Associated Press. He was processed and turned over to Middlesex County officials.

Simon said he was “profoundly sorry” that a Walmart truck was involved in the accident, and the company said it is cooperating fully with law enforcement.

Simon pledged the company would “do what’s right for the family of the victim and the survivors in the days and weeks ahead.”

Morgan, Fuqua, Millea and comedian Harris Stanton were traveling from a gig at Dover Downs Casino in Delaware early Saturday when their 2012 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van was struck by Roper’s truck on the New Jersey Turnpike, according to State Police.

Morgan’s driver Tyrone Gale told ABC News that the impact felt like an explosion, after which the van felt like it flipped several times.

“I climbed around and heard Tracy screaming for help,” Gale told ABC. “I climbed up on the body of the limo bus … but I couldn’t reach them.”

Stanton was treated and released from the hospital.

Four other vehicles were involved in the crash, but none of their occupants was seriously injured. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Morgan first gained prominence as a “Saturday Night Live” cast member. He went on to star in the critically acclaimed television series “30 Rock.”

The prosecutor’s office asks that anyone with information about the crash to call the State Police’s Detective Bureau in Cranbury at (732) 609-860-9000, ext. 4400.

h/t – nj

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Tracy Morgan in Critical Condition After Fatal Auto Accident

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan and two members of his entourage remain in critical condition Sunday after after the limousine bus he was riding in was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on the New Jersey Turnpike Saturday that left one dead.

The vehicle carrying the former Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock cast member and six others was involved in a six-vehicle accident in the northbound lanes of the turnpike near mile marker 71.5, near Cranbury Township, at about 1 a.m. ET Saturday, Sgt. First Class Greg Williams told The Associated Press.

Morgan was in intensive care at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a hospital spokesperson said Saturday.

Morgan’s family was with him at the hospital on Saturday, according to the actor’s representative. “His family is now with him and he is receiving excellent care,” Lewis Kay said in a statement. “We don’t anticipate much of a change in his condition today, but will provide a further update once more information becomes available.”

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