Gloria Estefan came face-to-face with death on March 20, 1990, when a horrific tour bus accident left her almost entirely paralyzed.<br /><br />On that day, the “Conga” singer, 60, was on the road with her husband, son and two of her crew members in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains when a tractor-trailer jack-knifed across the icy road in front of them.<br /><br />Estefan’s driver, Ron Jones, stopped in time to avoid a crash, only for them to get slammed by another tractor minutes later.<br /><br />Now, nearly 30 years later, REELZ’s new docuseries, Collision Course: Gloria Estefan, is giving viewers an inside look into Estefan’s accident, as well as shocking interviews with the singer herself!<br /><br />“I knew I couldn’t move. I knew I was paralyzed at the moment. I knew the minute that I tried to move my legs and I couldn’t move how serious it was,” says Estefan in a throwback interview from the show teaser.<br /><br />While Estefan eventually recovered after a complex spinal surgery, what was it that really caused the terrifying car crash?<br /><br />Collision Course: Gloria Estefan airs Sunday, August 12 at 10:00 ET / PT on REELZ.<br /><br />We pay for juicy info! Do you have a story for RadarOnline.com? Email us at tips@radaronline.com, or call us at 800-344-9598 any time, day or night.
