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Wal-Mart after Morgan crash: Safety top priority

By David Porter
Published June 10, 2014 1:32am ET
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Wal-Mart after Morgan crash: Safety top priority
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2012 file photo, comedian Tracy Morgan performs at "Eddie Murphy: One Night Only," a celebration of Murphy's career at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. Morgan is recovering but is expected to remain hospitalized for several weeks after having surgery on a broken leg suffered in a chain-reaction crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Saturday, June 7, 2014, that left two others critically injured and one dead. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision, File) | Chris Pizzello

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Wal-Mart says after one of its truck drivers was accused of causing a New Jersey highway crash that injured actor and comedian Tracy Morgan and killed one of his friends that safety is its highest priority.

A spokesman for Morgan says he faces an “arduous” recovery. Spokesman Lewis Kay said in an email Monday that Morgan underwent surgery on a broken leg at a New Brunswick hospital and remains in critical but stable condition.

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