Overview
- Michael Hyland, 53, exited Stony Brook University Hospital on Thursday after 29 days in the ICU, part of it on life support.
- His injuries included a separation of the spine from the skull that his trauma surgeon described as an internal decapitation.
- The Oct. 6 crash occurred in Lindenhurst while he escorted a funeral on a motorcycle and was struck by a pickup truck, which Nassau County’s police commissioner characterized as an accident.
- He was greeted by colleagues with applause as he transferred to an inpatient rehabilitation program to continue a long recovery.
- Police leaders used the case to urge drivers to slow down and operate vehicles more carefully on Long Island roads.