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    • Jun 14, 1987
    College student Daman Reynolds swerves into Loretta Lynn's bus and totals his pickup truck near Sweetwater, Texas. A sleeping Lynn is wakened by the crash, puts on a bathrobe, and nurses Reynolds until the ambulance arrives
    Jul 3, 1987
    A 14-year-old Jimmy Wayne is in the backseat of an Oldsmobile Delta 88 when his stepdad shoots someone--just one episode in a tragic childhood that leads him to become a homeless teenager
    Oct 10, 1987
    Tanya Tucker's parents give her a Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC for her 29th birthday. The singer piles a bunch of friends onto the roof and hood to take a picture and dents the car in the process
    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
    Jan 22, 1988
    Donna Fargo's Nashville-area house is partially destroyed by a fire that erupts in her 1978 Rolls-Royce. Her gold records survive the blaze
    Feb 22, 1988
    Mercury releases Kathy Mattea's "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses"
    Mar 6, 1988
    T.G. Sheppard sings the national anthem at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, where Neil Bonnett wins NASCAR's Goodwrench 500
    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
    Jun 22, 1988
    Conway Twitty's tour bus is sideswiped by a truck on the wrong side of the road in Missouri. The truck then collides with a car following Twitty's bus, injuring Twitty associate Michael Schrimpf and three family members
    Aug 28, 1988
    Four members of The Charlie Daniels Band barely escape injury when they flee their burning bus 16 miles south of Ventura, California. Within minutes, flames shoot 30 feet into the air



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