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Dec 1, 1967
Country/pop singer Jimmie Rodgers is pulled over by a Los Angeles policeman for traffic violations. He is found two hours later in his car with a broken wrist and fractured skull, requiring three brain operations and the insertion of a steel plate
Dec 3, 1967
Singer/songwriter Wayne Kemp, the author of "The Image Of Me" and "Love Bug," is involved in an accident while touring in Moline, Illinois. Two of his band members are killed, and Kemp suffers serious burns
Jan 1, 1968
Little Jimmy Dickens' wife, Ernestine, dies in a car accident in Sherman, Texas, when her car veers off an icy overpass
Apr 22, 1968
RCA executive Steve Sholes dies when he suffers a heart attack while driving to the Nashville Airport. A 1967 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Sholes produced country hits by Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow and Jim Reeves
Jul 1, 1968
The Beatles' John Lennon and girlfriend Yoko Ono are injured in a car accident in Scotland, requiring hospitalization. Several Lennon-McCartney compositions go on to become country hits, including "I Feel Fine" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
Sep 27, 1968
Songwriter Don Chapel, who's already filed for D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Tammy Wynette, files an alienation suit against George Jones, claiming the Possum lured his wife away with numerous gifts, including a new Lincoln Continental
Oct 13, 1968
Marty Robbins finishes 12th driving a 1967 Dodge Charger at the National 500 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina
Oct 17, 1968
Guy Drake buys a used 1968 Buick from Boyd Motors in Benton, Kentucky, for $750. The check bounces, and he will be arrested 18 months later, ironically as he's marketing his single "Welfare Cadilac"
Feb 9, 1969
When their pickup goes out of control on the icy Kickapoo Creek bridge in Illinois, Waylon Jennings band member Chuck Conway is thrown into the creek. Two hours later, he's pronounced dead
Sep 30, 1969
Former Byrd David Crosby's girlfriend, Christine Gail Hinton, dies in a car accident north of San Francisco
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