LINDENHURST, Long Island (WABC) -- An investigation is underway after a Nassau County Highway Patrol officer on a motorcycle was seriously injured in a crash with a truck during a funeral procession.

It happened Monday around 11:30 a.m. on North Wellwood Avenue at Jerome Street as Nassau officers led the funeral procession for a relative of a Nassau County police officer.

After leaving Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, one of the officers involved in the procession crashed into a pickup truck.

The officer was rushed to the hospital in serious condition.

Details surrounding the circumstances of the crash were not yet known.

Multiple neighbors complained about the intersection on North Wellwood Avenue.

"Most of the time people race through here and they start to slows

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