
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 22, 1990                   TAG: 9003222199
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

SINGER NEEDS BACK SURGERY AFTER CRASH

Singer Gloria Estefan faces surgery today and will need three to six months of recovery for two broken vertebrae suffered when her bus was rammed by a truck, doctors said Wednesday.

The star of the Miami Sound Machine had some numbness and weakness in her legs, and a slim possibility of paralysis remained, surgeons said.

Two vertebrae just above the waist were fractured and dislocated, a "significant and serious injury to the spine," according to a statement from the Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa.

Estefan, 32, and the group were headed to Syracuse, N.Y., for a concert Tuesday when the accident occurred about noon on Interstate 380 in eastern Pennsylvania.

- Associated Press

by CNB