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Mar 25, 2004
Tracy Lawrence's bus catches fire while parked in front of a San Diego hotel. No one is aboard; Lawrence is ironically chatting with firemen in a restaurant at the time
Apr 17, 2004
Kenny Chesney's merchandise truck goes up in flames near Little Rock when a truck headed the wrong way on the interstate collides with it. No one from Chesney's crew is hurt, though the singer loses $1.5 million worth of goods
Apr 28, 2004
The windshield of Joe Diffie's bus is shattered on Interstate 40 when a brick is thrown from an overpass. Diffie travels more than 11 hours with clear tape holding the window together to make a show in Charlotte, North Carolina
Oct 4, 2004
George Hampton, a bus driver for Toby Keith, is shot in the left leg in Dallas, while driving equipment from Florida to Oklahoma. The singer is not on board at the time
Mar 26, 2005
Pat Green's band bus catches fire in Chattanooga while his musicians are sleeping. The driver gets the musicians out and uses a fire extinguisher to control the flames until the fire department arrives. No one is hurt
May 23, 2005
Ashley Judd's bus is destroyed by fire outside the Hollywood Country Club near Jacksonville, Arkansas, where the Judd sister is filming a movie, "Come Early Morning," with Jeffrey Donovan and Tim Blake Nelson
Jun 3, 2005
Little Texas' bus is hit by lightning, destroying the onboard computer. The vehicle is eased to the side of the interstate, and the band waits six hours before a replacement arrives. They still make it in time to play the evening's show in Tulsa
Jun 16, 2006
A man who had attended the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, hops over a fence onto Interstate 24 in front of a moving tour bus owned by Ricky Skaggs, who had just played the date. The man dies on the scene
Apr 6, 2007
Rodney Atkins' bus crashes near Augusta, Georgia. Multiple vehicles are involved in the accident, though no one is injured
Jul 13, 2007
A genuinely unlucky Friday the 13th moment: Gene Watson's bus catches fire near Nashville when the axle breaks. Watson battles the flames with his band for 30 minutes before firefighters arrive, then appears on the Grand Ole Opry the same night
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