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    • Nov 5, 1976
    After drinking with piano player Tony Brown at T.G.I. Friday's in Nashville, Tanya Tucker has an accident on the way home. Her father/manager, Boe Tucker, fires Brown, who then lands a job with Elvis Presley
    Nov 22, 1976
    After overturning his $46,000 Rolls-Royce, Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested at a street corner near his Memphis home for reckless driving and driving without a license. Later in the day, he's jailed in Tunica, Mississippi, for driving while intoxicated
    Jun 28, 1977
    Jeannie Seely loses control of her automobile and plows into a tree in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. She undergoes same-day surgery for a punctured lung, a fractured jaw and five broken ribs
    Aug 17, 1977
    More than 25,000 grieving fans view the body of Elvis Presley at Graceland in Memphis. Two women die when a car plows into a crowd of mourners on Elvis Presley Boulevard at an all-night vigil
    Jan 23, 1978
    Vic Ames, one-fourth of The Ames Brothers, dies in an ice-related car accident in Nashville. Prominent in the 1950s, the group had a pop hit with the 1956 release "It Only Hurts For A Little While," remade for the country charts by Margo Smith just weeks before Ames' death
    Jan 12, 1979
    Barry Sadler's truck slides off a slick freeway ramp that connects I-75 with I-285 outside Atlanta. The wreckage includes dozens of empty ammunition boxes. Sadler is not significantly hurt
    Mar 16, 1979
    Gregg Allman is arrested in Daytona Beach, Florida, and charged with reckless driving after slamming his car into another auto, sending the two women in that car to the hospital. In 1980, Willie Nelson earns a country hit with Allman's song "Midnight Rider"
    Mar 25, 1979
    Jerry Lee Lewis wrecks a white Corvette in DeSoto County, Mississippi, although he gets out of the car and leaves the scene before police arrive
    Jun 21, 1979
    Eight-year-old Sara Evans is hit by a car in front of her family's home in Missouri, breaking both of her legs
    Sep 19, 1979
    Joe "Fingers" Carr dies in a car accident near his home in Camarillo, California. The former husband of Margaret Whiting, he shared billing with Tennessee Ernie Ford on the 1951 country hit "Tailor Made Woman"



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