Top US senator’s wife, daughter, injured in accident
March 12th, 2010 - 10:08 am ICT by IANS
Washington , March 12 (DPA) The wife of US Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid was in serious condition after a car accident Thursday in Virginia that also injured his daughter.
Landra Reid, 69, was in a Washington area hospital with a broken back, broken neck and broken nose, according to a statement from the senator’s office. Their daughter, Lana Reid-Barringer, 48, was
apparently less seriously hurt.
The two women were conscious in hospital and could “feel their extremities,” the statement said. Their injuries were said to be non-liffe threatening.
Their car was hit in the rear by a large tractor trailer in
Virginia, outside the nation’s capital, the statement said. The truck
apparently failed to slow down as traffic came to a crawl ahead of
it, The Washington Post reported.
Reid, a Democrat, is engaged in a mammoth fight for universal
health care against Republican resistance, and has brought the
legislation further in the Senate than any of the decades-long
attempts to reform the system.
US President Barack Obama wants a final bill by March 18, a date
regarded as the last gasp deadline before congressional campaigns
begin for November elections. Reid himself faces a serious challenge
in his home state Nevada over the health reform issue.
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