Weezer Frontman Injured in NY Crash, Tour Canceled

As you may have heard by now, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was injured in a tour bus accident in New York early yesterday morning, and the band has now canceled their remaining shows. They've updated their blog with new details, including photos from the accident. They wrote:

"At 7:18 AM EST, about 40 miles West of Albany on I-90, 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.

Damage was severe, and everyone on the bus was either terrified or injured or both. Both Sarah [Rivers' assistant] and Rivers' wife were pitched out of their upper level bunks onto the floor 5 feet below. Somehow Rivers' wife was uninjured, but Sarah sustained 2 fractured ribs and a fractured lower vertebrae. The baby daughter was in her crib unit and was fine, as was the nanny. However in the back lounge, Rivers was tossed around violently, waking up as he landed back on his mattress. He recalled not hitting anything, but later we learned that he must have, as he cracked 3 ribs and sustained some mostly minor but very painful internal damage, as well as hurting his lower leg somehow."

Rivers is still in the hospital, and they ask that you stay tuned for refund information if you already purchased tickets to a show. And with that... we now have this song stuck in our head.

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By Jen Carlson in News on December 7, 2009 12:08 PM

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carbomb

get dangerous

robingee

Weezer is excellent! Get well soon, Rivers and family!

The Man Bat

Ok, Ok...I feel bad for the baby, but my god that band does indeed suck balls.

bond0007

hope his sexy asian wife is ok

marcasm

Was she driving the bus ?

NannyState

"1997 Nearly Claimed In Bus Accident"

WorksInDUMBO

Wow, you guys are so MEAN! give the guy a break, he was just in a terrible accident, and there was a freakin BABY involved.

farleft

This is so sad. So very, very sad. Not that there was a bus crash with a Weezer dude in it...but that you actually work in DUMBO. My most sincere condolences.

The Man Bat

There might be a suckier band out there......but I doubt it.

Swingline

I bet he looks just like Bloody Holly

youngpro

this buss happened to crash in the small town where i was born and raised and let me tell you, the newspaper there is abuzz- like the 'best' thing to happen there since that highway was built.

grizzzly

Three cracked ribs will certainly add a new layer to the band's name.

Mr. Shankly

win

hotstepper

black ice: yet another reason that NYC should secede from upstate.

gimme

if it takes a bus crash to stop Weezer from plying it's cloying trade in pitiful throwaway dreck songs, so be it

farleft

I hope his sweater wasn't destroyed.

longacre

Say it ain't so.

Kojak

In other news, Heroic Bus Driver swerves off road to save concert goers from Weezer's music. Has been nominated for congressional medal of honor.