Live hip hop combo The Roots were involved in a dramatic bus crash on Wednesday night, while en route to Paris, where they were due to play a show with Kanye West. But, although the double decker tour bus managed to spin 360 degrees and crush another van, it seems everyone involved escaped with nothing more than cuts and bruises.
In an email to his online hip hop community Okayplayer, the band's drummer Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson said: "In reality the crash was all of about seven seconds, but to do a 360 on the highway and end up ramped up (the van that crashed into ours was UNDER our double decker bus) in the air... [and all survive] is... well... a frigging miracle".
He continued: "My drum tech, D was the first to make sure I was okay and since the panic mode was setting in, the way he was asking me was rather... panicky. And, based on the fact that he was walking on the ceiling, indeed let me know that this was no fender bender I was in".
Confirming that all were okay, he finished: "We are soooo alive right now. And, yes, we went through all that shit people go through when they go through accidents; dazed, amazed, grateful, laughing. ... Some of us have cuts and neck braces on. ... [I] just wanna let everyone know that we are happy to be alive. And not in that TV cliché way. But man, that was divine intervention. We are so grateful for this outcome".