Weezer Praise Bus Driver’s Skill In Tour Bus Accident

Word spread quickly Sunday that Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was taken to the hospital after his tour bus skidded off the road in New York early that morning. Both Cuomo and a band assistant were injured when their tour bus fell 10 feet into a muddy ravine about 40 miles west of Albany, New York.

In the aftermath, the band are praising their tour bus driver, who’s driving skill helped reduce the damage in what could have been a much worse accident Sunday morning.

Weezer’s webmaster, Karl Koch, who arrived on the scene 20 minutes after the crash, wrote on the band’s official website:

“The Weezer tour bus carrying Rivers and his family and assistants lost control as it hit a patch of black ice.

“The driver employed every ounce of skill he had in fighting to keep the bus upright, as the vehicle violently fishtailed over the highway. Kudos to the driver for somehow keeping things as level as they could be — surely this story would have been far more tragic if not for his actions.”

The tour bus was transporting Cuomo, his wife, daughter, their nanny and his assistant from Toronto, Ontario, to Boston, Massachusetts for a Monday night show – then the bus hit black ice. The bus went off the freeway and plunged nearly 10 feet into a muddy ravine, according to Koch’s web report. The front door was jammed shut with ’5 feet of heavy wet mud up pressed against it,’ so there was no way to escape the bus after the accident.

Firefighters had to use the jaws of life to remove Cuomo and the others from a rear window.

Cuomo was apparently sleeping when the bus crashed and was thrown around by the impact.

“He recalled not hitting anything, but later we learned that he must have, as he cracked three ribs and sustained some mostly minor but very painful internal damage, as well as hurting his lower leg somehow,” Koch wrote.

Thankfully, Cuomo is resting comfortably at a hospital in Amsterdam, New York, and will not need surgery.

Unfortunately, the remaining dates of the December Raditude Tour have been canceled.

[source: cnn]