Those injuries are severe for a woman her age (the wife).
It will be a long recovery.
I wouldn’t wish this kind of trouble on my worst enemy. Rear-ended by a semi on I-95. It’s a very dangerous road.
God be with them all and may the doctors and nurses give them the best of American healthcare (pre-Obamacare style.)
Right now they are probably both heavily sedated and don’t know or care if Harry is there or not.
Latest:
Reid’s wife and daughter sent to hospital after car accident
Updated 6:15 p.m.
By Josh White and Shailagh Murray
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were in a serious car accident Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, and police said they are being treated at an area hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Police said the Reids’ van was rear-ended and crushed by a fully loaded tractor-trailer while driving in heavy traffic.
Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Landra G. Reid, 69, and Lana Reid-Barringer, 48, of McLean, were driving northbound on I-95 at about 1:10 p.m. in a 2005 Honda Odyssey van in stop-and-go traffic when Reid-Barringer began to stop for traffic ahead of her. A tractor-trailer loaded with rolls of plastic behind her did not stop and pushed the van into another car.
That car in turn hit a third car.
Geller said the van was crushed on both ends.
No doubt. But Harry knows. And he's chosen his priorities. Which one of us would--could!--leave our wife and daughter at a time like that? They are not ferrets you drop off at the vet.