NASHVILLE (AP) – Merle Haggard is fortunate that in all the years he’s been touring, he’s only been in one tour bus accident. He says in 1967, his bus was on a two-lane highway with a truck heading into it and people stopped in front of them. Haggard says their choice was to take the bus into a ditch or kill a bunch of people, so they headed for the ditch. The bus ended up on its side. No one was hurt, the bus wasn’t even scratched. Haggard says they never even got a thank you from the people they saved. He’s got a new, shorter bus now, which means he can do East Coast tours. He says there are a lot of overhangs in the east that would tear the roof off his other bus.

 

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