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Mar 22, 1956
Carl Perkins suffers a broken collarbone, a concussion and cuts when the Chrysler transporting his band to New York for "The Perry Como Show" back-ends a truck in Delaware. Also injured in the accident are brothers Clayton and Jay Perkins
Apr 21, 1956
Not quite one month since breaking his collarbone in an auto accident, Carl Perkins returns to the stage in Beaumont, Texas
Mar 18, 1959
Elvis Presley injures his knee when he's thrown from a Jeep while serving with the Army in Germany. He requires three days of bed rest
Jun 13, 1960
Steel guitarist Jerry Byrd suffers three fractured ribs and a broken knee cap in an auto accident, forcing him to spend more than a week in the hospital. Byrd's work includes recordings by Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins
Oct 16, 1960
Elvis Presley breaks a finger playing touch football at Graceland Mansion in Memphis
Dec 3, 1960
Dave Dudley is hit by a car while getting out of his own vehicle on a Minneapolis street. He is taken to Methodist Hospital and diagnosed with a fractured leg, a broken pelvis and facial cuts, among other injuries. Dudley invests the $14,000 he receives from the insurance company to record "Six Days On The Road"
Feb 4, 1961
Rockabilly artist Johnny Burnette has an emergency appendectomy in Hollywood
Mar 20, 1961
Ray Charles severs a tendon and an artery in his left hand and requires four pints of blood. The following year he makes an unlikely impact on country music with the release of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
Jun 14, 1961
Patsy Cline is seriously injured in a head-on collision in Nashville. Two passengers in the other car die, while Cline receives a dislocated hip and a cut across her forehead
Sep 8, 1961
"A-Team" guitarist Hank Garland goes into a coma after a car accident near Springfield, Tennessee. Noted for his work with such acts as Elvis Presley, Faron Young and The Everly Brothers, Garland never plays on another recording session
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