A tour bus carrying members of Gregg Allman’s band has crashed on a highway in West Virginia.
According to reports, Allman was not injured, but three of the legendary musician’s sound engineers were taken to an area hospital. The crash occurred when the driver of the bus allegedly began to choke, losing control of the vehicle. It ran off the highway “within feet of a creek near the 119 mile marker on I-77 near the Goldtown exit,” writes CBS News. “Trees apparently stopped the bus from entering the creek.”
Allman, formerly of the Allman Brothers band, is currently on our as a solo artist. It is unclear if he was on the bus that crashed. In 1971, the Allman Brothers’ Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle crash in Georgia.
More from Tri State Update:
“According to WOWK sources, 3 of the members of the production team transported to the hospital include a monitor engineer, production manager and an audio technician have been injured. Earl McCoy, Timothy Wright and Michael Gallun are the injured, WOWK has been able to confirm via their LinkedIn and Facebook profiles that they all are currently listed as working on the Gregg Allman tour. They are in stable condition at Charleston’s CAMC General hospital”.
Allman is scheduled to perform tonight at The Clay Center in Charleston. No decision has been made public about the show.