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Mar 11, 1961
Ray Price's driver steers his bus off Highway 90 south of Valentine, Texas, to avoid a pickup truck when it pulls up onto the pavement from the side of the road. The driver's maneuver likely saves lives, though the bus breaks in two
Mar 30, 1963
George Jones ends up in a hospital after his bus slides into a ravine near Grants Pass, Oregon. Also injured is steel guitarist Hal Rugg
Nov 16, 1963
Ernest Tubb's bus has a head-on collision with a car going the wrong way on a North Carolina freeway exit. Jean Shepard suffers a broken knee cap, while Tubb and Lefty Frizzell are bruised in the crash
Aug 17, 1964
Debbie Lee Rogers, the adopted Korean daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies in a Sunday School bus accident in San Clemente, California
Sep 19, 1978
George Jones' tour bus is stolen in Nashville
Jan 26, 1983
Dottie West's son, Kerry, has an accident on ice on Interstate 35 in Kansas while driving nine members of her road crew on the bus. No one is injured
Feb 6, 1983
Conway Twitty's tour bus is involved in a collision in Virginia on a slick interstate. No one is injured
Jun 14, 1987
College student Daman Reynolds swerves into Loretta Lynn's bus and totals his pickup truck near Sweetwater, Texas. A sleeping Lynn is wakened by the crash, puts on a bathrobe, and nurses Reynolds until the ambulance arrives
Jun 22, 1988
Conway Twitty's tour bus is sideswiped by a truck on the wrong side of the road in Missouri. The truck then collides with a car following Twitty's bus, injuring Twitty associate Michael Schrimpf and three family members
Aug 28, 1988
Four members of The Charlie Daniels Band barely escape injury when they flee their burning bus 16 miles south of Ventura, California. Within minutes, flames shoot 30 feet into the air
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