A man is on life support after a New Jersey police officer driving to work hit him as he tried to cross the street Monday night, police said.
The 28-year-old man was walking across Kennedy Boulevard in Guttenberg just before midnight when he was struck by a Honda Accord driven by the West New York officer, Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari said.
The officer, who was not on duty at the time, stopped and helped the injured man after hitting him, authorities said. Another police officer passing by in a patrol car also stopped to help.
North Bergen EMS took the man, who was in cardiac arrest, to Palisades Medical Center. His brothers were by his side at the hospital, where he was listed in "very critical condition," officials said.
The officer driving the Honda was taken to Palisades Medical Center for shock and has since been released. Authorities say he doesn't appear he was speeding when he hit the man.
A sheriff spokesman said there is surveillance video of the victim staggering out of a bar before he was hit. No criminality is suspected on the part of the officer, authorities said.
The investigation is ongoing.
