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Joan Hyler wasn't able to attend the big wedding this weekend between longtime couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. Joan Hyler is the manager of actress and newlywed Portia de Rossi but Hyler was involved in an accident on the PCH in Malibu on Saturday night, and was seriously injured when she was struck while attempting to cross the busy coastal road.

Joan Hyler (porti's rep) injured in accident in Malibu (Image: Wenn)

According to a report from the Jewish Journal the longtime rep is still in critical condition, but there is good news and she is now stabilized, the report states. According to another report from KNBC in Los Angeles she was on the Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday night. The report details that she has an address with her of a friend she was planning to visit and it was still clutched in her hand when the accident occurred.


She was crossing the road and hit by a passing car. Accoding to official cited in local reports, the man driving the car was traveling at 40 m.p.h. when he slammed into Hyler. Police say she was not in a marked crosswalk and he was not ticketed, according to a report from CBS. She was taken taken by helicopter from the scene of the accident.

The injuries sound very serious as authorities cited by CBS say Joan has multiple fractures. She also has something identified by sheriff's Sgt. Philip Brooks as "brain trauma." A new update of her condition is here at Luke Ford.