3 Doors Singer Downed

By Gina Serpe

 

 

Forget Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down needs to worry more about wet roads.

 

Frontman Brad Arnold is recovering at home in Biloxi, Mississippi, after suffering major injuries resulting from a car wreck earlier this month, per a posting on the band's Website.

 

Arnold, 27, was riding shotgun and his wife, Terika, was driving on a rural Mississippi highway during a driving rain storm on Feb. 1, when she lost control and skidded off the road.

 

"They were coming back from a casino, hit some kind of water on the road," band mate Todd Harrell told the Associated Press. "The car hydroplaned, went down a high embankment and they hit a tree. I guess if Brad hadn't been wearing his seatbelt, he'd probably be dead now."

 

According to the band's site, Arnold sustained several severe lacerations and bruises but is expected to make a full recovery.

 

Harnell said that Arnold received "35 or 40 stitches in the side of his face," but that his wife somehow managed to escape injury in the crash. No other cars were involved in the incident.

 

"He had a plastic surgeon come in and work on him, sewed his ear back on," Harell said. "He's going to be all right. He was hit hard, though."

 

The band, which has sold more than 12 million records during its career, had been on the road in support of its chart-topping 2005 release, Seventeen Days. Due to the accident, several shows have been either scrapped or indefinitely postponed.

 

With Arnold waylaid, the band isn't ready to announce make-up dates or whether it will proceed with a European tour scheduled for next month.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060210/en_music_eo/18338

Has the term "riding shotgun" penetrated the cultural lexicon so far that it's being used as the primary way to describe a person who was a passenger in a car crash by a major news outlet? Maybe it's just because the accident was in Mississippi. I mean, in Mississippi, he very well may have been riding a shotgun, which resulted in the loss of an ear.

 

/I have a feeling I'm going to tune into World News Tonight, and hear about the tragic death of an inner city youth who "got a cap busted in his ass."

Is this the band that made that 'Superman' song that sounded like a bad Eddy Money cover? Guess the kryptonite couldn't help his ass.

Maybe this will forever end his mainstream music contributions. One can only hope.