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    • Nov 13, 1990
    Richie Shelton dies in a car accident in Ada, Oklahoma, when his girlfriend drives into the back end of a school bus. His brother, Blake Shelton, honors him by co-writing the 2011 release "Over You" with Miranda Lambert
    Jul 19, 1991
    The brakes fail on Dottie West's car on the way to the Grand Ole Opry. She loses control and hits a wall but sustains only minor injuries
    Aug 30, 1991
    When her Chrysler breaks down, Dottie West hitches a ride to the Grand Ole Opry from passing driver George Thackston. He has an accident on the Opry's exit ramp, and West is hospitalized with a lacerated liver. She dies five days later
    Nov 29, 1991
    Hank Snow is injured in a two-car accident on his way to the Grand Ole Opry. Snow is out of the Opry lineup for several months while recovering from the partial removal of a kneecap in surgery
    May 30, 1992
    Boy Howdy drummer Hugh Wright is hit by a car on the LBJ Freeway in Dallas while trying to help an injured driver. He spends five months in a coma
    Jun 9, 1992
    Songwriter, producer and keyboard player David Foster hits a pedestrian while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. The accident nearly kills the victim: actor Ben Vereen
    Jul 25, 1992
    Rocker Bryan Adams is involved in an auto accident in St. Gellen, Switzerland, where he helps the victims from the other vehicle before assistance arrives. Adams writes the Lonestar country hit "You Walked In"
    Jan 30, 1993
    Bus driver Johnny Wiggins dies in a head-on car crash in North Carolina. Known as "The Singing Bus Driver," he drove Ernest Tubb's bus for 30 years, but dies before his children, John & Audrey Wiggins, net their first recording deal
    May 15, 1994
    Lyle Lovett has a car accident near Klein, Texas, when he backs his Chevy Suburban into a vehicle driven by a reporter for The National Enquirer
    Aug 21, 1994
    Exactly one year after his first drunk-driving charge, John Denver is charged again after he plows his Porsche into a tree in Aspen, Colorado



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