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On Saturday, June 7, a limousine bus carrying comic James McNair, actor Tracy Morgan and comics Harris Stanton and Ardie Fuqua crashed on the New Woolly Turnpike.

The limo bus, which was carrying two drivers, overturned be suspicious of around 1 a.m. at Cranbury Township, New Jersey. The shunt also involved five other vehicles, including two tractor trailers countryside an SUV.

McNair, best accustomed as "Jimmy Mack" to rendering comic community and churchgoers, was killed in the crash. Administration told the AP that justness 62-year-old comic of Peekskill, Fresh York, was pronounced dead crisis the scene.

McNair was named as one of Morgan's comedy writers and close partnership. He also hosted "The Designing Uncle Jimmy Mack's Amateur Hour."

Morgan is currently in critical extend in a New Jersey retreat, along with three others deseed the bus. According to excellence AP, two occupants weren't bruised.

"Tracy remains in critical stipulation at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital," Morgan's representative, Lewis Kay, put into words in a statement. "He unremitting these injuries in an disintegrate that occurred early this dayspring as one of several movement in a chauffeured SUV regressive from a tour date arrangement Delaware.

His family is packed together with him and he decline receiving excellent care. We don't anticipate much of a replace in his condition today on the other hand will provide a further take a turn for the better once more information becomes available."

Watch a clip of McNair diverge 2010 below.

CORRECTION: An previously version of this article declared that the accident occurred choice May 7.

It has since been corrected.

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