Stevie D. of Buckcherry shares moments from the car accident that involved the band’s tour bus

The multi-vehicle collision that Buckcherry’s tour bus was involved in on August 21 was discussed by guitarist Stevie Dacanay (also known as Stevie D.) in a recent interview with Laughing Monkey With Shawn Ratches, as per Blabbermouth. One person had died in the multi-vehicle collision on Interstate 26 in Spartanburg County, according to a message made at the time on the band’s social media. All members of the touring crew and group were “safe and unharmed,” according to the band, and they sent their sympathies to the deceased person’s family and friends.

I haven’t really even talked about it with anybody outside the band. But, yeah, there was an accident just outside of… We were coming out of a show in South Carolina, and there was an accident right bef[ore]… We were all all coming over a hill. And there was a drunk guy that pulled over. He was half in the shoulder, half in the right lane, opened his door, walked out of his car, and the first car hit him. And then he flew into the left lane, and then we came over the hill, took off his door and then the door went into oncoming traffic and caused a pile-up over there, and then we hit the guy after that. Then several cars — I think five or six more cars — came over the hill after us, and there was a pile-up after us. So there was quite a mess. After we pulled over, a drum tech ran about a quarter of a mile down to see what had happened and saw the aftermath. And our bus was not drivable after that. There was gas, there was diesel and transmission fluid and brake fluid on the highway, and then they closed it all down because the guy had passed. And so we were all there on the highway till about 8:00 a.m. And it happened around 2:00 a.m. But that was that in a nutshell.

Stevie also commented on the accident’s media coverage, which implied that Buckcherry’s role in the collision was more important than it actually was.

I saw that there was a bunch of press after that… I guess what a lot of outlets do is kind of spin it in a way where people will click on it. And it looked like somebody in our camp had died… I don’t know. There was just a bunch of… It was just a weird spin on things. And then there was even… I saw podcasts about the accident, that they were speculating things, and it was just really silly. So, I just stayed out of the whole thing. It was a traumatic kind of thing… I even saw a story — it was on YouTube. It came up in my feed. I, just like everyone else, clicked on it, and it was all this footage of crashes that weren’t even our accident. And they were horrifying. And then peppered with pictures of us. So, I don’t know. It is what it is. It’s over. And I hope that guy is in a — he’s obviously in a better place now.

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