Speaking Heads members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth had been concerned in a automobile accident, struck head-on by an alleged drunk driver.
In a put up to Fb, Frantz detailed what occurred.
“Two weeks in the past tonight I used to be driving on the Submit Street, U.S. Route 1 with Tina Weymouth once we had been struck head on by a drunk driver who was driving on the incorrect facet of the street,” the drummer defined. “Extremely, we walked away from the collision.”
Frantz’s timeline locations the incident on March 13. In keeping with the musician, his spouse and bandmate Weymouth suffered the worst accidents.
“Tina had a cat scan and suffered three fractured ribs and a fractured sternum,” Frantz famous. “She’s been in a number of ache however she’s going to get higher with time. I give due to our guardian angels and to the Ford Motor Firm for constructing a automobile that protected us from getting killed.”
Frantz’s put up, which will be seen under, was accompanied by an image of a critically broken white Ford SUV. Additional particulars in regards to the accident, together with police proof referring to the opposite occasion’s blood alcohol content material, has not been made obtainable.
A consultant instructed Pitchfork that Weymouth is “a bit banged up within the accident however is resting and doing nicely. With the kind of damage she had, relaxation is a key a part of the restoration course of. Chris is taking excellent care of her.”
Frantz and Weymouth had been college students with David Byrne on the Rhode Island College of Design within the early ‘70s. They’d later transfer to New York, the place the trio based Speaking Heads in 1975. Whereas the lineup can be augmented through the years, Frantz, Weymouth and Byrne remained its basis. The group launched eight studio albums earlier than disbanding in 1991. Speaking Heads had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2002.
