Wal-Mart truck driver Kevin Roper in court last month. Roper pleaded not guilty in the fatal New Jersey Turnpike crash that also injured comedian Tracy Morgan. (AP Photo/The Star-Ledger, John O'Boyle, Pool)

(Bloomberg) — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for negligence over a New Jersey Turnpike accident last month that left him critically injured after a company truck driver went at least 24 hours without sleep.

Wal-Mart “knew or should have known” it was unreasonable for trucker Kevin Roper to commute about 750 miles and then work almost 14 hours before crashing into a van carrying Morgan, according to a complaint in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

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