The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is sponsoring a raffle for an officer who was critically injured in a car accident over spring break, union officials announced this week.
Another vehicle broadsided the car of Patrol Officer Anthony Carvello in Belmont as he left a detail on April 4.
The accident was so severe that, although Carvello had his seatbelt on, he smashed into the passenger side door during the impact. He has no memory of the accident.
Carvello suffered massive head injuries. After a two-week stay, the intensive care unit of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital recently discharged Carvello to the Youville Rehabilitation Hospital in Cambridge, where he continues to recuperate.
Doctors expect he will require several months of rehabilitation.
"Overall, Anthony is doing miraculous," said Officer Wilmon D. Chipman, president of the police union.
HUPD hopes the money raised in the raffle will help Carvello's wife and two young children, Anthony Jr., 9, and Madison, 2.
All HUPD officers will carry the raffle tickets until the May 8 deadline.
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