WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been taken to the hospital after was in a car accident in Las Vegas. He reportedly suffered minor rib injuries, a police spokesman said, according to the Las Vegas-Review Journal. The 72-year-old Reid was believed to have been in a rear-end accident on Interstate 15 on Friday afternoon. The accident involved two Las Vegas police SWAT protection detail vehicles and two U.S. Capitol Police vehicles, as well as two civilian vehicles. Reid's wife Landra, as well as first lady Michelle Obama, were to give speeches at Las Vegas event on Friday afternoon. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 15 were closed because of the accident.
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