A Nassau County Highway Patrol officer was in critical condition late Monday after being injured in a crash while part of an earlier funeral procession in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County police said.

The officer, identified as Michael Hyland, 53, was riding a 2020 Harley Davidson about 11:08 a.m. when "he collided with a 2020 Toyota Tundra" at the intersection of North Wellwood Avenue and Jerome Street, the police said in a news release.

Photographs from the scene show a Toyota Tundra pickup with severe damage to its front end and parked over a police motorcycle laying on its side.

Hyland was taken to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, where he was in critical condition late Monday. The driver of the Tundra was not injured, police said.

Tommy Shevlin, president of the Nassau

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