REO Speedwagon singer Terry Luttrell was injured after he crashed his automobile when he fell asleep behind the wheel — simply hours after performing on the band’s farewell live performance in Illinois.
The vocalist dozed off Sunday morning whereas driving on Interstate 57, roughly 30 miles south of Champaign, Unwell, the place the live performance was held.
“The airbag went off and cracked my sternum a little bit,” Luttrell instructed The Information-Gazette on Tuesday. “I have a little back pain and neck pain. It’s nothing that can’t be overcome.”
Luttrell admitted he didn’t get a lot relaxation earlier than the crash.
The rocker sang together with his former band on Saturday night time throughout their “Legacy of REO Speedwagon” farewell live performance on the State Farm Heart, which is the band’s hometown.
Then, the vocalist went to an afterparty and signed autographs for followers till 2 a.m, in line with the outlet.
When Luttrell arrived at his resort early Sunday, he was shocked by 40 further followers who wished autographs.
The singer went to mattress round 4:30 a.m. however didn’t keep asleep for lengthy.
He wakened a number of hours later to drive to St. Louis, practically three hours south of Champaign, for a enterprise journey.
Nonetheless, roughly half-hour into the drive, he fell asleep on Interstate 57.
“It just happened,” Luttrell instructed the newspaper. “I nodded off. I rolled the car over, and I woke up and I was in a cocoon [the airbags]. Unfortunately, it totaled the car.”
However the musician was nonetheless “able to get up and get out of the car.”
Luttrell instructed the information outlet on Tuesday that he deliberate to remain on the hospital for a number of days to obtain rehab for his injured physique.
“I just heard about Terry Luttrell’s car accident … I wish him the best on a speedy recovery,” the band’s longtime frontman Kevin Cronin, who changed Luttrell in early 1972, wrote in a short Fb publish late Wednesday night time.
Michael Mesey, the band’s drummer, claimed Luttrell feels grateful to be alive and is “thankful for all the love and prayers” from followers.
“He is very blessed to have walked away from this accident, mainly a blessing from God and the airbags in his BMW,” Mesey instructed The Each day Mail.
REO Speedwagon fashioned in 1967 and introduced on Luttrell to sing lead vocals on the band’s self-titled debut album in 1971.
Luttrell left the band in 1972 and have become the frontman for Starcastle.
REO Speedwagon then picked Kevin Cronin because the main man.
Cronin went on to sing a few of the band’s hottest songs, together with “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and “Keep On Loving You.”
The band stopped touring in 2024 attributable to “irreconcilable differences.”
