Alex Edelman/AFP via GettySen. Joe Manchin’s wife was hospitalized Monday after a car crash in Birmingham, Alabama. Gayle Conelly Manchin and her colleague Guy Land were taken to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital after “another vehicle struck their car” on their way from the airport to their hotel, according to a statement from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Gayle Manchin is the federal co-chair of the ARC, which provides economic development assistance to people in the A