Tracy Lawrence on the Orange Carpet at the 43rd Annual ACM Awards, Sunday, May 18, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. Photo by David Vespie.
March 25, 2009 — Tracy Lawrence prefers his blow-outs come on stage or on birthdays, but over the weekend he had a blow-out that threatened him and four members of his tour entourage.
While winding back to Nashville Sunday from a show in Jackpot, Nev., the left front tire on Tracy's bus burst on Interstate 80 near North Platte, Neb. Road manager Chuck Pursel, who was behind the wheel relieving bus driver Raymond Hall, lost control of the vehicle, which weaved across the median and continued rolling on the wrong side of the interstate with the tires from only one side of the bus in contact with the pavement. Cars were speeding toward the bus, and Chuck jerked the wheel to the right, which could have flipped the carrier. Fortunately, it brought all the tires back on the road, and Chuck pulled the bus onto the median befo re they came to a stop.
It could have led to a traumatic accident. Instead, no one was hurt, the bus suffered a comparatively minor amount of damage, and Tracy and his crew were merely delayed a couple hours while they replaced the tire and checked the bus over.
"By divine intervention," Tracy says, "we were at the right place at the right time for a serious incident like this to happen and have everyone walk away unscathed."
Tracy's been thinking a lot about divine guidance these days. He's planning the release of a gospel-influenced album, The Rock, in June. He shot a video for the first single, "Up To Him," on Tuesday.
No comments:
Post a Comment