Granger Smith Bus Crash Puts ‘Perspective On Everything’

Granger Smith said it best when he referred to the start of August 11th as “a hell of a morning.” Smith and his crew were on route to play a show in Baltimore, MD when his equipment truck was involved in a serious accident leaving it overturned and crushed.

The gruesome look of the accident scene, showed the bandmember’s instruments and belongings completely mangled inside the trailer of the semi. The cab of the tractor trailer was completely crushed and compressed. Fortunately, the driver was unharmed and no one was injured.

"It puts perspective on everything," Smith says. "Just standing there on that hill looking down at our whole music life, packed into a truck that is completely decapitated...but knowing that we're all okay, the band and crew, we're perfectly fine, it puts everything in perspective."

Artists and their crew members clock thousands of miles on the road each year as they tour the country. Moments like this happen and are sometimes terrifying and tragic. Smith posted a photo of the trailer being removed from the roadside with the caption, “My old coach used to tell us- “It’s not adversity that defines character. It’s how you react to it.” We’ve run this road long enough to know that not one day can be taken for granted. And I sure am thankful today.” Smith and the crew collectively made the decision that the show must go on. They gathered what gear was salvageable and made their way to Baltimore where they put on “one hell of a show” that night after their “hell of a morning.”

Granger Smith and his band are grateful to be alive and safe. They will be playing in Aberdeen, S.D. on August 15th.


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