Author Injured in Hamden Crash Planned to Meet with Actress Betty White: Report

The best-selling author critically injured in a head-on collision with a vehicle driving in the wrong direction early Sunday morning in Hamden was on her way to La Guardia Airport to fly out for a meeting with actress Betty White, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

The Record-Journal reports that Laura Van Wormer, 59, is the literary agent for White and was going to meet with the actress about a book.

Van Wormer was listed in critical but stable condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital on Monday night and is facing multiple surgeries, according to the Record-Journal.

Van Wormer’s vehicle was struck by another vehicle that was driving in the wrong direction on the Wilbur Cross Parkway.

State police are investigating the crash, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. on Route 15 between the Heroes’ Tunnel and Exit 60.

The driver of the other vehicle, Wilian Chavez-Sanchez, was also taken to Yale after the accident.

Van Wormer is the author of “The Alexandra Chronicles” series and has written TV tie-in books for Dallas and Knots Landing.

Visit her website here.

Read the full story at the Meriden Record Journal here.

Pictured: Laura Van Wormer via Facebook