Crime & Safety
Update: Author Remains in Critical Condition
Meriden's Laura Van Wormer was struck by a vehicle driving in the wrong direction on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Hamden last week.
Best-selling author Laura Van Wormer, 59, of Meriden, remains in critical condition one week after a head-on collision in Hamden, the Meriden Record-Journal reports.
Van Wormer, who was on her way to La Guardia Airport to fly out for a meeting with actress Betty White about a book, was struck by another vehicle that was driving in the wrong direction on the Wilbur Cross Parkway last Sunday.
Van Wormer’s literary agent told the Record-Journal that she faced multiple surgeries the day after the crash and she was still in critical condition as of Monday morning.
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State police are investigating the crash, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. on Route 15 between the Heroes’ Tunnel and Exit 60 on June 14.
The driver of the other vehicle, Wilian Chavez-Sanchez, was also taken to Yale after the accident.
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Van Wormer is the author of “The Alexandra Chronicles” series and has written TV tie-in books for Dallas and Knots Landing.
Read the full story at the Meriden Record Journal here.
Pictured: Laura Van Wormer via Facebook
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