'Keep fighting’: Critically injured NC trooper returns home after 84 days of treatment

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A trooper who was struck by a vehicle while he was attempting to survey the site of a deadly crash has returned home after 84 days of treatment.

At the beginning of July, Trooper Adolfo A. Lopez-Alcedo was about to resurvey the scene of a fatal crash on Interstate 485 that happened the night before. Five people were killed and three others were hurt in the crash.

Lopez-Alcedo had parked his patrol car in the middle of the interstate to block two lanes. That’s when another vehicle slammed into the patrol car which then struck the trooper.

Lopez-Alcedo was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries and was later moved to Shepard’s Center in Atlanta to continue his recovery.

“Thank God for miracles, and thank God you are alive and healing, our brother. Keep fighting," Highway Patrol said in a Facebook post.

His family shared the following post to social media about his return home:

“84 DAYS but whose counting!!!! Thank you JESUS for bringing our brother, our Trooper, our hero home!! Thank you for every single blessing, for being there when the pain was too much to endure, when we had no strength. Through every tear you walked with everyone every second of every day. You prepared us and prepared this road for everyone. We are beyond blessed for another day and another miracle!!! Today ends the hospital portion. We know the next part of therapy and continued recovery won’t be easy BUT God! Thank you Jesus for bringing Emmaleigh and Emerson back in the arms of Arturo and Jenn!!! There is nothing like the love of a mother and a father and these kids have endured enough. Their faces say it all, they are now complete with Mommy and Daddy! Thank you everyone for all the prayers and support. Keep praying!!!”

Lopez-Alcedo is a husband and the father of two children. He has been with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol for two years.

Authorities said the driver who hit him, Troy Douglas Edmiston, was charged with felony failure to move over upon approach of a law enforcement officer.

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