Survived Highway Accident
Four Tops Consider Themselves Lucky?
Special To The Post
Theyre not in tip-top shape
following a highway accident
near Athens, Ga., last week,
but according to lead singer
Levi Stubbs, members of the
Four Tops are “lucky to be
alive.”
The Tops-Stubbs, Obie Ben
son, Abdul Fakir and Law
rence Payton-were enroute to
a college date in Columbia,
S.C., when their chartered bus
collided with a truck. All 13
persons on board the bus were
injured.
“If you could see the dam
age done to that double-decker
bus, it makes us look like we
came out of the wreckage
unscathed,” said Stubbs.
According to the singer, the
collision took place on a curve
on U.S.-78.
“It was a two-lane high
way," said Stubbs. “The
jruckwas coming out of a turn
and hit us head on.”
The Four Tops suffered
multiple injuries-Stubbs, lace
rations in his right leg, as did
Payton. Benson’s jaw,
thought to be fractured, was
bruised. Fakir twisted his
neck.
The group's bass player,
Greg Coles, fractured his
ankle. Pianist George Round
tree suffered cuts in the
comer of his right eye.
On the more critical list are
the Tops’ drivers Doug Hock
enberry and Larry Landry.
Hockenberry, still in Athens
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through the windshield, suf
fering a broken collarbone and
fingers.
Landry, who drove down an
embankment to avoid running
over Hockenberry, was pinned
beneath the wheel.
"He was in pretty bad
shape," said Stubbs. “Duke
and I tried to help him, but
they had to cut him out of the
bus. His teeth were knocked
out. His legs crushed. And
they told us he had internal
injuries.”
Landry was taken to St.
Mary's hospital.
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“I consider it a miracle that
we (The Tops) were able to
walk away from the acci
dent," said Stubbs. "Only an
hour before, two trailer trucks
collided on that same highway
and one of the drivers was
killed. A state trooper, on his
way to the scene of our acci
dent, swerved and slid into a
tree, splitting his vehicle in
half. They took him in the
same ambulance with us to
the hospital."
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