Mormon Leader, Wife Avoid Serious Injury

Mormon Church President Gordon B. Hinckley escaped injury and his wife, Marjorie, received only minor scratches when their car ran into steel beams loaded on a truck in Nicaragua.

The Hinckleys were on their way to the Managua airport Tuesday when a pickup carrying steel beams stopped abruptly. Some of the beams struck the Hinckleys’ rental car, the church’s public affairs office reported Wednesday.

Hinckley, 86, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1995, and Mrs. Hinckley, 85, and their party are on a 10-day tour of six nations in Central America.

The party continued to the airport and traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for scheduled meetings with church members.

Elder Russell M. Nelson of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve and his wife, Dantzel, were in the car following the Hinckleys and not involved in the accident.