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Apr 28, 1980
Bass player Tommy Caldwell dies in a car crash in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was a member of the Southern rock group The Marshall Tucker Band, playing on "Can't You See," covered for the country charts by Waylon Jennings in 1976
Jul 23, 1980
Former Grateful Dead keyboard player Keith Godchaux dies in an automobile accident in Marin County, California. The Dead will be referenced in Lonestar's 1996 country hit "No News"
Sep 2, 1980
Songwriter Bill Boling dies in Nashville from injuries suffered in a car accident, 18 months after Johnny Rodriguez had a hit with his song "Down On The Rio Grande"
Mar 4, 1981
Songwriters Hall of Fame member E.Y. "Yip" Harburg dies in an auto accident in Los Angeles. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he co-wrote the "Wizard Of Oz" classic "Over The Rainbow," which became a country hit for Jerry Lee Lewis just months before the accident
Apr 22, 1981
"Lay Down Sally" singer Eric Clapton is hospitalized in Seattle with bruised ribs and a lacerated leg after a car accident
Jun 22, 1981
Debby Boone is hospitalized in Ohio after an automobile accident on Interstate 71, caused when her vehicle, driven by husband Gabriel Ferrer, collided with the wheels of a semi while passing
Mar 30, 1982
George Jones totals a 1981 Lincoln Town Car when he flips it on Grubb Springs Road in Hamilton, Mississippi. He receives facial cuts and charges for drunk driving, and enters a Birmingham psychiatric hospital
Feb 16, 1984
Ralph Emery's shoulder is broken when his Cadillac is rear-ended on Nashville's Franklin Road. Emery loses control of the car and is hit by oncoming traffic
Sep 11, 1984
Barbara Mandrell is involved in an auto accident in Hendersonville, Tennessee, that kills the other driver and nearly takes her life
Oct 13, 1984
Bill Anderson's wife suffers a serious head injury when a weaving plumber's truck hits her Cadillac Coupe de Ville in Nashville. The other driver, a drunk 18-year-old, later receives a three-year prison sentence
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