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Crash Involving Senator Reid's Wife Shows the Damage that Can Occur

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 07:20

Landra Reid, 69, and her daughter Lana Barringer, 49, were returning from a shopping trip when their Honda Odyssey was rammed from behind by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 south of Washington, Harry Reid said.

"It hit them so hard, crushed the three seats -- three rows of seats in that regular-sized van, crushed the two first seats, threw my wife forward, broke her seat belt," said Reid, D-Nev. "She doesn't remember the accident. My daughter does."

Doctors at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., "were very worried" about a neck fracture that Landra Reid suffered, a break at the C-6 level, Reid said.

"That's where people become quadriplegics, and she had been having a lot of trouble the first day with her arm and pain," Reid said. "And morphine didn't help."

A titanium plate was installed Friday during surgery that doctors declared a success. "The minute she got out of surgery and the anesthesia had worn off ... no pain, total feeling," Reid said. "And in a couple hours they had her sitting up. And she's home now. ... She's doing just fine."

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