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After bike crash, Fred Hubbell facing long road to recovery
BACKGROUNDFred Hubbell, the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor, was hit by a car while riding a bicycle earlier this year in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Hubbell, who will be 68 this week, was riding in the bike lane of a Scottsdale street Feb. 15 when a driver failed to yield before making a right turn on a red light, his wife, Charlotte Hubbell, said.
The former Equitable Life Insurance Co. and Younkers executive spent more than two weeks in a hospital in Scottsdale, where the Hubbells own a home. He underwent multiple surgeries for a broken pelvis.
WHAT’S HAPPENED SINCE
Two months after the collision, Hubbell is on a long road to recovery.
Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/fred-hubbell-bike-crash-accident-democratic-nominee-for-governor-iowa-newstrack-election-2018-20190419
(Cedar Rapids Gazette)