{"id":378810,"date":"2026-08-23T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378810\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:26:10","slug":"one-dead-after-2000s-rock-band-buckcherrys-tour-bus-involved-in-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378810\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after 2000s rock band Buckcherry&#8217;s tour bus involved in fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tour bus carrying the rock band Buckcherry was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y3k5-2omw2Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">involved in a fatal crash on a highway<\/a>\u00a0in South Carolina early Friday morning, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>No one in the band was hurt, but a person who had stopped on the highway and gotten out of their car was reportedly killed, FOX Carolina said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTragically, authorities have confirmed that the collision that occurred ahead of our bus resulted in a fatality. Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the family and loved ones of the person who lost their life,\u201d\u00a0 the \u201cCrazy Bitch\u201d singers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50588235;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"9128629\" width=\"888\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/portrait-american-rock-band-buckcherry-138244137.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of the American rock band Buckcherry posing backstage.\" class=\"wp-image-9128629\"\/>Portrait of American rock band Buckcherry as they pose backstage at the Metro, Chicago, Illinois, February 10, 2006 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known how the bus got mixed up in the multivehicle wreck on I-26 near Spartanburg.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s scheduled performance in Fort Lauderdale will go ahead as planned.<\/p>\n<p>No other alterations were made to the tour schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened during the band\u2019s \u201cRoar Like Thunder\u201d tour \u2014 which is named after their 2025 studio album.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"9128627\" width=\"1049\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2000s-rock-band-unharmed-tour-138244220.jpg\" alt=\"A nighttime photo of a highway accident with police lights, featuring news graphics at the bottom about a driver involved in a second crash.\" class=\"wp-image-9128627\"\/>One person was killed in the crash in South Carolina. WYFF4<\/p>\n<p>The band was traveling from its most recent performance at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Buckcherry consists of Josh Todd, Stevie Dacanay, Billy Rowe, Kelly LeMieux and Francis Ruiz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the band did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tour bus carrying the rock band Buckcherry was involved in a fatal crash on a highway\u00a0in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50606,95583,9633,104,249,251,250,1407,25288],"class_list":["post-378810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bands","tag-celebrity-car-crashes","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-music","tag-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}