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  • Jan 3, 1985
    Barbara Mandrell announces at a press conference that she's recovered, three months after her near-fatal car accident. She is, in fact, masking traumatic fears brought on by the September crash
    Jun 19, 1985
    A bruised Bruce: Ed Bruce's 17-year-old daughter, Leigh Ann-Marie, receives minor cuts and bruises when another vehicle turns in front of the 1977 Mercedes she's driving in Nashville
    Oct 8, 1985
    "Slippin' And Slidin'" songwriter Little Richard is hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after fracturing his right leg in a car wreck
    Oct 23, 1985
    David Crosby, formerly of The Byrds, is arrested in Mill Valley, California, after crashing into a fence. He's charged with hit and run, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia
    Jan 29, 1986
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins has an alcohol-related car accident in Jacksonville, Florida, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing him below the neck. He pleads no contest to manslaughter charges
    Jun 25, 1986
    Jenifer Strait, the 13-year-old daughter of George Strait, dies in an auto accident. She is a passenger in a car, driven by a teenage friend, that rolls over during a left turn in San Marcos, Texas
    Nov 1, 1987
    Shania Twain's parents are killed in an automobile accident near Wawa, Ontario, leaving her to take care of her two brothers
    Apr 9, 1988
    R&B singer Dave Prater dies in a car accident near Sycamore, Georgia. As one-half of Sam & Dave, he sang on the 1967 hit "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby," translated as a country single by Sonny James in 1976
    Jan 17, 1989
    Randy Travis and manager Lib Hatcher swerve to avoid another car on Marylebone Creek Road outside Nashville. Their Lincoln Town Car winds up in the ditch. Travis receives only bruises
    Jun 24, 1989
    Hank Snow is involved in a car accident in Nashville that prevents him from performing on the night's second Grand Ole Opry show




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