(WASHINGTON, DC) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife was
hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a
tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which
she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in
suburban Virginia, officials said.

Reid's wife, Landra, 69, whose injuries were not believed to be
life-threatening, and their daughter, Lana Barringer, 49, were
taken by ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.
The daughter was released from the hospital Thursday night,
according to a staffer with the hospital's patient information
service.

Mrs. Reid was listed in serious condition, Reid aides said, but
was not expected to require surgery. She was being treated in the
hospital's trauma intensive care unit, said the hospital staffer,
who declined to give his name.

"Mrs. Reid has a broken nose, broken back and broken neck,"
Reid spokesman Jim Manley said in a statement. "Lana has a neck
injury and facial lacerations." Manley said Mrs. Reid could feel
her extremities.

Virginia State Police said Mrs. Reid and her daughter were
traveling northbound on I-95 in stop-and-go traffic when their
Honda Odyssey was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer loaded with rolls
of plastic. The impact forced the Reid family's minivan to rear-end
a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which in turn struck a Chevrolet Cobalt.

The driver of the tractor-trailer, Alan W. Snader, 59, of Ohio,
was charged with reckless driving, police said. He was not injured.
All involved were wearing seat belts, police said.

Reid, D-Nev., went to the hospital after being notified of the
accident and returned to Capitol Hill for a meeting with White
House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on efforts to pass health care legislation. He went back to the
hospital Thursday evening.

Reid, 70, met Landra while they were attending Basic High School
in Henderson, Nev. They were married in 1959. Lana was born two
years later. The couple also have four sons: Rory, Leif, Josh and
Key. Lana Barringer has three children.