{"id":2951,"date":"2024-01-31T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/suspect-fleeing-police-crashed-into-vehicle-carrying-joe-manchins-wife\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:19:01","slug":"suspect-fleeing-police-crashed-into-vehicle-carrying-joe-manchins-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/suspect-fleeing-police-crashed-into-vehicle-carrying-joe-manchins-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect fleeing police crashed into vehicle carrying Joe Manchin’s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s wife<\/a> was hospitalized Tuesday after her car was hit by a suspect fleeing police, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police say the accident happened while Gayle Manchin was traveling from the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport to an area hotel with her colleague, Guy Land. Manchin was injured in the wreck but is in “stable condition,” according to a statement released by her husband on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That afternoon, officers initiated a pursuit involving a suspect wanted on felony charges, according to the Homewood Police Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police units pursued the vehicle through North Birmingham onto 18th Street North but lost contact with the suspected vehicle in the 1300 block of the street, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SEN. JOE MANCHIN’S WIFE HOSPITALIZED AFTER CAR CRASH IN ALABAMA, IN \u2018STABLE CONDITION\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Homeland Police continued on 18th Street North and found that the suspect vehicle had collided with another vehicle at the intersection of 18th Street North and 15th Avenue North.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Land was the driver in the other vehicle, and Gayle Manchin was the passenger. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Services<\/a> were called to the scene to attend to their injuries. Both were transported to the UAB Gardendale Hospital. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspect was apprehended without incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Homewood Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigations Division is currently investigating this case and is in the process of obtaining multiple felony warrants against the suspect,” Homeland Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MANCHIN HINTS AT POTENTIAL THIRD PARTY RUN AFTER SUPER TUESDAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The suspect is currently being held at Homewood City Jail pending arrest warrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gayle Manchin had traveled to Alabama for an Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) event. She is the federal co-chair of ARC, which describes itself as an “economic development partnership entity of the federal government and 13 state governments focusing on 423 counties across the Appalachian Region.”<\/p>\n

Land, the organization says, is an ARC congressional liaison.<\/p>\n

“While they were driving from the airport to their hotel, another vehicle struck their car,” ARC said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MANCHIN \u2018ABSOLUTELY\u2019 CAN SEE HIMSELF AS PRESIDENT, THINKS BIDEN HEALTH OR TRUMP CONVICTION COULD GIVE OPENING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. Manchin, meanwhile, has been teasing a potential third-party presidential bid after Super Tuesday on March 5.<\/p>\n

“Super Tuesday pretty much confirms whatever is going to happen, what we believe will happen, and we’ll see where we go from there,” Manchin told reporters last week.<\/p>\n

“But people are looking for options, and we’re going to be looking at that, too,” he added. Whether it’s me or whoever it may be, I think there’s going to be options available if it goes down the way it’s going down.”<\/p>\n

Manchin announced he would not seek re-election for his Senate seat last year, creating speculation about whether he’d make a bid in the 2024 presidential race<\/a>. Manchin started a nationwide campaign called “Americans Together,” aiming to unite the country’s moderate voters away from the “extremes” of the left and right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman, Jamie Joseph and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s wife was hospitalized Tuesday after her car was hit by a suspect fleeing police, authorities said.\u00a0 Police say the accident happened while Gayle Manchin was traveling from the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport to an area hotel with her colleague, Guy Land. Manchin was injured in the wreck but is in “stable … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}