David Allan Coe Injured, Hospitalized [PHOTOS]: Country Singer Car Crash in Ocala, Florida, Ran Red Light Collided withTractor Trailer Truck

By Jon Niles, Mstarz reporter (j.niles@mstarsnews.com) | Mar 20, 2013 04:12 PM EDT

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Country music singer David Allan Coe reportedly ran a red light Tuesday, colliding with a tractor-trailer and injuring himself and truck's occupants in Ocala, Florida. Police have cited the 73-year-old singer and he has been hospitalized. The driver of the truck, 50-year-old Robert Johnson, and his passenger, 49-year-old Lisa Meade, were also injured, but no reports have surfaced if whether or not they have been hospitalized like Coe.

A message on Coe's website says that he is "recuperating from his accident and will be ok." His manager for over two decades, Bruce Smith, said that he is "doing okay" and that his (sixth) wife is with the country music star. According to his agent, Coe's concerts in St. Louis and Louisville, Kentucky have been canceled.

Ocala police say that Coe was driving a 2011 Chevy Suburban when he ran the red light. The tractor-trailer truck then hit Coe's SUV broadside, pushing it into a nearby parking lot. Finally, the truck "flipped on its side, wrapped around a pole and spilled the radishes and corn it was hauling."

There have been no reports as to the reason(s) why David Allan Coe ran the red light in the first place.

Check out some pictures of the car crash right here.

 

According to David Allan Coe's (very interesting) website biography:

Coe was born in Akron, Ohio on September 6, 1939. His favorite singer as a child was Johnny Ace. After being sent to a reform school at the age of 9, he spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities. Coe received encouragement to begin writing songs from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, with whom he had spent time in prison. Coe was treated poorly by racist inmates because he was friends with African American prisoners. After concluding another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse which he parked in front of the Ryman Auditorium, where the Grand Ole Opry was located, and caught the attention of the independent record label Plantation Records, and signed a contract with the label.

After the Internal Revenue Service seized his home in Key West, Florida, Coe lived in a cave in Tennessee, and later remarried and got back on his feet.

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