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    • Jan 16, 1953
    Bill Monroe suffers 19 broken bones in a head-on collision on Highway 31 near White House, Tennessee. He still manages to get out of the car and pull another passenger, Bessie Lee Mauldin, out of the other side. Monroe is unable to tour until May
    Aug 2, 1953
    The Davis Sisters are involved in a head-on car accident in Cincinnati. Betty Jack Davis is killed, while Skeeter Davis survives. The driver of the other automobile later pleads guilty to manslaughter
    Apr 26, 1954
    Ernest Tubb is arrested for drunk driving when his car hits a telephone pole on North First Street in Nashville
    Feb 22, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs a sold-out show in Hope, Arkansas, the home of nine-year-old Bill Clinton. Presley gets his first pink Cadillac stuck in mud in a two-car caravan that includes June Carter and Justin Tubb
    Jun 5, 1955
    Elvis Presley's pink Cadillac is destroyed when it catches fire while traveling between Hope, Arkansas, and Texarkana
    Sep 2, 1955
    Elvis Presley wrecks a Cadillac on the way from New Orleans to a show in Texarkana. Presley's able to play the date, along with Johnny Cash
    Sep 30, 1955
    Actor James Dean dies in a car accident in Cholame, California, four weeks before the opening of "Rebel Without A Cause." He is referenced in The Bellamy Brothers' "Rebels Without A Clue," The Statler Brothers' "Do You Remember These" and Keith Urban's "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
    Oct 3, 1955
    Earl Scruggs suffers a fractured hip in an early-morning automobile accident 15 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee. Also injured in the crash are his wife, Louise, and sons Gary and Randy Scruggs
    Feb 28, 1956
    Elvis Presley has a minor fender-bender, when another driver runs into his Eldorado convertible in a Memphis parking garage
    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



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