A rock star is breaking his silence after a fatal tour bus crash. The incident happened in late August in South Carolina.
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The rock band Buckcherry was driving through on their tour bus when they were involved in a collision. Speaking via Blabbermouth, guitarist Stevie Dacanay explained what happened on that fateful day.
"I haven't even really talked about it with anybody outside the band," Dacanay said. "But, yeah, there was an accident just outside of ... We were coming out of a show in South Carolina, and there was an accident right before ... we were all coming over a hill. And there was a drunk guy that pulled over. He was half in the shoulder, half in the right lane, opened his door, walked out of his car, and the first car hit him. And then he flew into the left lane, and then we came over the hill, took off his door and then the door went into oncoming traffic and caused a pile-up over there, and then we hit the guy after that. Then several cars — I think five or six more cars — came over the hill after us, and there was a pile-up after us. So there was quite a mess. After we pulled over, a drum tech ran about a quarter of a mile down to see what had happened and saw the aftermath. And our bus was not drivable after that. There was gas, there was diesel and transmission fluid and brake fluid on the highway, and they closed it all down because the guy has passed. And so we were all there on the highway till about 8 a.m. and it happened around 2 a.m. but that was that in a nutshell."
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While neither the rock star or his bandmates were hurt, one person did die in the resulting collision. The band previously confirmed that someone in the collision ahead of the bus died. The rock band expressed condolences for the deceased.
Meanwhile, the rock star took issue with the media for suggesting one of the band died in the crash.
"I saw that there was a bunch of press after that," he said. "I guess what a lot of outlets do is kind of spin it in a way where people will click on it. And it looked like somebody in our camp had died. I don't know. There was just a bunch of ... it was just a weird spin on things. And then there was even ... I saw podcasts about the accident, that they were speculating things, and it was just really silly. So, I just stayed out of the whole thing. It was a traumatic kind of thing. I even saw a story, it was on YouTube. It came up in my feed. I, just like everyone else, clicked on it, and it was all this footage of crashes that weren't even our accident. And they were horrifying. And then it peppered with pictures of us. So, I don't know. It is what it is. It's over. And I hope that guy is in a — he's obviously in a better place now."
