Search Is Under Way for Congressional Candidate Gary Dodds

A massive search is underway for New Hampshire Congressional candidate Gary Dodds, who disappeared without a trace following a single-car accident last night, New Hampshire state police officials told ABC News.

Dodds' wife Cynthia remained today at the scene of the accident along the southbound side of New Hampshire's Spaulding Turnpike, where state and local police and area fire departments are searching with dogs, helicopters and marine patrol divers, senior campaign staffer Bonnie Winona said.

New Hampshire state police have issued a missing persons bulletin, a spokesman said.

The accident occurred near the Great Bay, a inland tidal estuary, Winona said. , the Democratic challenger to U.S. Representative Jeb Bradley, had left a Democratic committee meeting in Somersworth, N.H., and was traveling to Portsmouth to meet with a campaign fiscal agent, with whom Dodds was to finish up some federal election commission filings, Winona said.

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