CLEVELAND -- Doctors are praising the rescue efforts made to save the life of Middleburg Heights police officer Ryan Nagy, NewsChannel5 reported.

MetroHealth Medical Center's Director of Trauma Dr. Charles Yowler served in Iraq. He compared Nagy’s injuries to those he’s seen on the battlefield.

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"This was in a way a wartime injury (because) there were massive injuries to his lower extremities," Yowler said.

The crash occurred Tuesday when a pickup truck drifted across several lanes of highway traffic, plowing into a police cruiser and pinning the officer, who was writing a ticket, between the two vehicles.

His right leg was amputated, but Yowler said Nagy can be rehabilitated. He remains in critical condition.

The Middleburg Heights paramedics who responded to the crash were Nagy's friends. They were able to stop the bleeding, keep him breathing and drive him by ambulance to MetroHealth, WEWS reported.

Meanwhile, Nagy's wife, Barb, released a statement thanking the paramedics and doctors.

She also made a plea to drivers. Eileen Korey, Metro's vice president of communications, read the statement.

"If there is any good to come from this, we hope the accident will remind everyone to slow down and take particular caution of police cruisers that are stopped along the roadside," Nagy's wife wrote in her statement.

WEWS reported many police officers are flooding Metro to visit him.