POP/ROCK - March 22, 1990

Estefan Injured, but Should Keep On Dancing: Pop music star Gloria Estefan escaped paralysis in a bus crash and could be back on stage dancing and singing with the Miami Sound Machine in three to six months, hospital officials said Wednesday. Doctors recommended surgery to treat a partly dislocated bone in Estefan’s back but said the 32-year-old singer-songwriter was expected to recover. The Cuban-born singer was alert and in stable condition, with some numbness in her limbs but no paralysis. Estefan was hurt en route to a concert in Syracuse, N.Y., when her private tour bus was struck in the rear by a tractor-trailer on a snowbound highway in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Estefan, who was sleeping on a couch, was knocked to the floor by the collision. Emilio Estefan, 37, the singer’s manager-husband, and their 9-year-old son, Nayid, were treated for minor injuries.