GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina congresswoman injured in a critical vehicle accident this week is recovering at house from a damaged sternum and bone in her foot, her workplace stated Friday.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning and a workers member who was driving her Thursday morning to an occasion in her district in north-central North Carolina after a three-vehicle wreck. Another driver was cited.
Manning and her aide have been discharged Thursday from Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. Manning’s workplace detailed the congresswoman’s accidents Friday and stated she would preserve working from house whereas she recovers. The U.S. House is in its August recess.
“She is very grateful for all the kind words, prayers and well wishes she has received,” the assertion stated.
The State Highway Patrol stated troopers responded round 10:15 a.m. to the accident on U.S. Highway 29 in Guilford County. A northbound driver making a left flip struck the southbound automobile carrying Manning, in response to a patrol assertion. The northbound automobile then struck a 3rd automobile ready at a purple gentle, the patrol stated.
The driver of the northbound automobile, a 34-year-old man from close by Alamance County, was charged with failure to yield, in response to the patrol.
Manning, 66, is in her second House time period. Her sixth Congressional District covers all or components of Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell and Forsyth counties.
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