REO Speedwagon singer crashes car after falling asleep at the wheel

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REO Speedwagon vocalist Terry Luttrell was successful a car clang connected Sunday greeting pursuing a reunion performance successful Champaign, Illinois, authorities constabulary confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Wednesday.

The 78-year-old told The News-Gazette successful Champaign that helium fell asleep astatine the instrumentality and suffered a cracked sternum from his car's airbag erstwhile helium crashed connected Interstate 57.

"I was capable to get up and get retired of the car," Luttrell told the paper by telephone from his infirmary room, adding that helium expected helium would beryllium hospitalized for a fewer much days doing rehabilitation. "The airbag went disconnected and cracked my sternum a small bit. I person a small backmost symptom and cervix pain. It’s thing that can’t beryllium overcome."

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Terry Luttrell performing with the set Starcastle successful 1977. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

Luttrell told the paper that helium had stayed astatine the concert's aft enactment until 2 a.m. signing autographs, and hadn't slept overmuch erstwhile helium headed retired for St. Louis connected business.

"It was conscionable sign-sign-sign," helium said. "I had radical with Starcastle albums and REO albums. People were truly friendly. You’ve got to [do it]."

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The vocalist and Champaign autochthonal said that portion helium felt a "little spot sleepy" aft lone a fewer hours of shuteye, helium didn't deliberation it would beryllium a problem.

"It conscionable happened," helium said. "I nodded off. I rolled the car over, and I woke up, and I was successful a cocoon (the airbags). Unfortunately, it totaled the car."

He added that immoderate of his nurses were adjacent astatine the concert.

And contempt his injuries, Luttrell said he's blessed helium performed astatine the farewell concert, which helium said was "was a bully amusement each the mode around."

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REO Speedwagon – without Luttrell – astatine the Summerfest Music Festival 2024 past June successful Wisconsin. (Weston Rich/Billboard via Getty Images)

"You ne'er cognize what it’s going to beryllium like," helium added. "Everybody (in the band) was excited. It was conscionable a amusive evening. It was precisely what we thought it was going to be. It was a one-off performance that volition ne'er hap again."

Late past year, the set said they planned to halt touring arsenic of January due to the fact that of "irreconcilable differences."

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Luttrell joined the set soon aft it formed successful Champaign astatine the University of Illinois in 1967 and near successful 1972. He was replaced by Kevin Cronin. He returned to beforehand the set for 1 clip connected Saturday night.