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Aug 29, 1956
Carl Perkins wrecks the Cadillac Sam Phillips had presented him in April while speeding near Brownsville, Texas
Sep 8, 1956
Jimmy Boyd is arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles after he was spotted drag racing and skidded into a fire hydrant on Kester Avenue trying to elude the police. Boyd is fined $100
Jul 4, 1957
Actress Judy Tyler dies in an automobile accident in Billy The Kid, Wyoming. She had worked with Elvis Presley just months earlier, playing his romantic interest during the filming of "Jailhouse Rock"
Dec 31, 1957
Ernest Tubb is fined $250 when he hits a tree, driving drunk, on Lynwood Terrace in Nashville with his 1957 Cadillac
Jul 15, 1958
Julia Lennon, the mother of John Lennon, dies in a car accident in Liverpool, England. The event comes a year after Lennon met future fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, with whom he shares songwriting credits on several country hits
Nov 10, 1958
"Bring It On Home To Me" songwriter Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls are injured when their car rams a truck near Marion, Arkansas. Their chauffeur is killed in the accident
Mar 18, 1959
Elvis Presley injures his knee when he's thrown from a Jeep while serving with the Army in Germany. He requires three days of bed rest
Mar 26, 1959
Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, and secretary, Elisabeth Stefaniak, are injured in a car accident on Germany's autobahn
Oct 9, 1959
Rollin Sullivan, of the comedy duo Lonzo & Oscar, loses his wife, Ruth Sullivan, and brother, Phil Sullivan, when another driver drifts into their lane on U.S. Highway 30 in Wyoming, and hits their car head-on. Rollin Sullivan, who was sleeping in the backseat, enters Evanston Memorial Hospital with serious injuries
Nov 23, 1959
Musician Jim Nicks is killed when Red Sovine and his band have a car accident in Oklahoma, spurred by a blown tire. Sovine and three other band members are injured in the crash
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