12-17-2009, 02:04 PM
Accidentally on purpose? We'll see if pictures and/or video of this "accident" end up in their next Music Video...
From the Montreal Gazette: Swollen Members' bus crushed by train, no injuries
Vancouver hip-hop group Swollen Members have a new respect for airplanes today. Their tour bus, affectionately known as "The Black Pearl," was crushed by a train Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Col.
The bus got stuck on a railroad crossing just after midnight, and was unable to move when a train approached.
No one was injured in the crash, but the bus was completely destroyed. It took more than four hours for authorities to clear the scene.
The band members were not on board, as Madchild, Prevail, Trey Nyce and Rob The Viking had all flown home after the last leg of their tour, just days before the accident.
Their tour manager, BJ Smith, and three remaining crew members were driving the bus to California. They narrowly escaped from the oncoming train.
"Everyone is lucky to be alive," said Smith in a statement. "Everything happened so fast we didn't have time to do anything but get off the bus.
From the time the bus got stuck, to the second the train impacted it, was under three minutes."
The band, which had been touring behind its album Armed to the Teeth, is similarly shaken by the incident. "The spot where the train impacted was where we would have been sleeping if we had we been on the bus," said Prevail. "It's scary to think how fragile life can be when something like this happens."
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From the Montreal Gazette: Swollen Members' bus crushed by train, no injuries
Vancouver hip-hop group Swollen Members have a new respect for airplanes today. Their tour bus, affectionately known as "The Black Pearl," was crushed by a train Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Col.
The bus got stuck on a railroad crossing just after midnight, and was unable to move when a train approached.
No one was injured in the crash, but the bus was completely destroyed. It took more than four hours for authorities to clear the scene.
The band members were not on board, as Madchild, Prevail, Trey Nyce and Rob The Viking had all flown home after the last leg of their tour, just days before the accident.
Their tour manager, BJ Smith, and three remaining crew members were driving the bus to California. They narrowly escaped from the oncoming train.
"Everyone is lucky to be alive," said Smith in a statement. "Everything happened so fast we didn't have time to do anything but get off the bus.
From the time the bus got stuck, to the second the train impacted it, was under three minutes."
The band, which had been touring behind its album Armed to the Teeth, is similarly shaken by the incident. "The spot where the train impacted was where we would have been sleeping if we had we been on the bus," said Prevail. "It's scary to think how fragile life can be when something like this happens."
© Copyright © Canwest News Service
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