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Long Island Police Officer Returns To Work A Year After Medically-Induced Coma Long Island Police Officer Returns To Work A Year After Medically-Induced Coma
Long Island Police Officer Returns To Work A Year After Medically-Induced Coma A Long Island police officer is back to work just over a year after he was critically injured in a crash with a drunk driver and placed in a medically-induced coma. Suffolk Couty Police Officer Christian Vidal was struck while driving northbound on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore when the intoxicated driver veered into his lane on Sept. 1 of 2019, according to police.  Vidal was airlifted to Stony Brook Hospital with severe injuries, including a pelvic fracture, a ruptured aorta and a dislocated hip; for the other driver, the crash was fatal.  Vidal also developed Acute Respiratory Dis…

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by Christina Coulter