Early Tuesday morning (Dec. 15), Swollen Members’ tour bus “The Black Pearl” was hit by a train in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The bus had gotten stuck on the train tracks as a result of being high centered. Three road crew members were onboard at the time, and all were able to exit the bus before the train made impact.
Traveling back from Canada, tour manager BJ Smith explained, “Everything happened so fast we didn’t have time to do anything but get off the bus. From the time the bus got stuck, to the second the train impacted it, was under three minutes.”
He continued, “As soon as we heard the railway barrier go down we could hear a train was coming, so we literally had 45 seconds to get off the bus and get as far out of the way as possible. If anyone else would have been on the bus with us they would have been dead because there wouldn’t have been enough time to wake them up and get off the bus.”
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All four Swollen Members had made it home prior to the accident by airplane.
Hearing about the news, rapper Prevail stated, “The spot where the train impacted was where we would have been sleeping if we had we been on the bus. It’s scary to think how fragile life can be when something like this happens.”
