folks,
we survived a van crash in falkenberg, sweden on sunday, june 17 at about ten of six pm. j cracked two of his vertebrae but no spinal injuries. he will heal well. I saw him take his first steps yesterday. tour boss david had a big scrape on the knee that need to be stitched up. george hurt his wrist and its wrapped up, kind of spraned. he was bracing against the dash. noel, the soundman, who was driving, had scrapes on the abdomen and a sore neck/shoulder. I had no injuries at all. only me and george were wearing seat belts, him in the front passenger and me in the back, drivers side (it was an english style right-hand drive van, mercedes sprinter).
we were on our way from oslo, norway (where we played saturday night) to bielefeld, germany (for next gig on monday) when in falconberg, sweden we tried to pass a vehicle and another vehicle sped up into the fast lane, we swerved to avoid him, back into the slow lane and swerved, an over-correction the other way sent us over on our side and we skidded across the highway and hit a cable and post center divider. the rescue people were there just like that, minutes. they popped the front windshield out to get j out. we came out through the side door. the side j was on, sitting back w/me. we were taken to a hospital south of the accident in halmstad w/a brand-new, two year old emergency room. the swedish people were very nice to us and helped a bunch.
the dick who jammed past us sped off as the accident was happening. david, noel and myself are in nyc now, j and george are flying in tomorrow.
I consider us all very very lucky and am very grateful things werent much worse.
the tour got cut short, of course (all the german gigs).
shook-up bass from watt but still bass
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