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Aug 16, 1930
Blind fiddler G.B. Grayson dies after an accident in which he was riding the sideboard of a car in Abingdon, Virginia. His "Ommie Wise" appears in the Country Music Foundation's ranking of the 500 greatest country singles
Mar 31, 1934
During a 30-mile drive to appear on the Grand Ole Opry, dulcimer player Kitty Cora Cline witnesses a horrible auto accident. She vows to never again travel by car, ending the six-year Opry span of the show's first female soloist
Apr 13, 1936
Bandleader Milton Brown is injured when he crashes his car into a telephone pole alongside the Jacksboro Highway outside of Fort Worth, Texas, killing a 16-year-old female passenger. Five days later, he dies after a punctured lung leads to pneumonia
Sep 9, 1938
Ernest Tubb's son, Roger, is killed in a car accident near Fredericksburg, Texas, just seven months after his birth. His mother, Elaine, is driving. The event spurs E.T. to write the hit "Our Baby's Book"
Jan 26, 1948
Les Paul and Mary Ford are injured when their car slides down a 20-foot embankment after skidding on icy Route 66 near Davenport, Oklahoma. She fractures her pelvis, while Paul suffers a broken nose and broken right arm. He also contracts pneumonia as they wait eight hours in the snow before they are discovered
Nov 18, 1949
Smiley Burnette is involved in a head-on collision while touring in Oklahoma
Apr 15, 1951
Texas Playboys guitarist Junior Barnard dies at Fresno County General Hospital in California, after a car crash. He played on "Bob Wills Boogie," "Brain Cloudy Blues" and "White Cross On Okinawa," as well as Johnnie Lee Wills' "Milk Cow Blues"
Aug 17, 1951
Ralph Stanley is seriously injured in an auto accident near Raleigh, North Carolina. During his recovery, Bill Monroe drops plans to bring The Stanley Brothers on as members of his backing band
Aug 22, 1951
Hank Snow is injured in a serious automobile accident in Nashville. He flips the vehicle twice, hitting a parked car and a telephone pole. Snow is taken to General Hospital with a skull fracture and multiple lacerations
May 11, 1952
Lucy Robertson, the eight-year-old daughter of Texas Jim Robertson, dies when she's hit by a car in a hit-and-run accident in Teaneck, New Jersey
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