Weezer's Rivers Cuomo injured in bus crash in NY

[cbdo2007]

In a harrowing post on Weezer’s official Website, band pal Karl Koch details the tour bus accident that injured frontman Rivers Cuomo severely enough to force the cancellation of the band’s remaining December tour dates. Cuomo, who Koch reports remains hospitalized, suffered three cracked ribs, “painful internal damage” and a lower leg injury; band assistant Sarah Kim fractured a lower vertebrae and two ribs; the bus’ other passengers — Cuomo’s wife, two-year-old daughter and her nanny — and driver were not injured.

Koch writes that as RS reported earlier, the tour bus skidded on ice and careened across several lanes of traffic on I-90 in upstate New York, crashing over a guardrail and into a muddy ditch. Cuomo was alone, sleeping in the bus’ back lounge at the time of the incident, and he was trapped and unable to speak immediately after the crash due to his injuries. Emergency responders used the “jaws of life” to pry the back window of the bus off to free Cuomo, and Koch writes that he was horrified by the scene once the other buses in the convoy caught up to the accident site.

(more) http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/12/06/weezers-cuomo-remains-hospitalized-after-bus-crash-as-band-cancels-shows/

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Hang in there Rivers!!

[SecularMotion]

1. From the Albany Times-Union

Rocker hurt in bus crash
Weezer was heading to Boston for show tonight; injuries not believed serious

By CHRISTEN GOWAN AND SCOTT WALDMAN, Staff writers
First published in print: Monday, December 7, 2009

ALBANY -- Rivers Cuomo, singer for the rock band Weezer, was hospitalized Sunday after his tour bus slid off the Thruway near Amsterdam.


The band's bus was eastbound on the Thruway just after 7 a.m. Sunday after about 2 inches of snow had fallen. Cuomo, his family and a band assistant were on board the bus at the time of the accident.

State Police said Cuomo complained of rib pain at the crash scene, and the band's assistant, Sarah Kim, told police she had back pain. Both were taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam, but Cuomo was then transferred to another hospital. St. Mary's would not say what hospital.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=874559#ixzz0Z0u4CBT1


http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=874559

[Birdiesmom]

2. Get well soon, Rivers!

What a terrible accident. Glad no one else was hurt.:(

[mackerel]

3. I hear he's doing better, a few cracked ribs, his wife

and child had no injuries.

Putting on Buddy Holly for you Rivers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4