Posted to the band’s MySpace is a first-hand account of the accident from this weekend in which Weezer’s tour bus slid across a patch of black ice, crushed a guardrail and landed in a ravine. Almost everyone was hurt–except Rivers’ baby daughter and her nanny. While it is not clear who wrote the piece, it appears to be from a trustworthy source:

… Finally, using the jaws of life to remove a rear window bar, the local EMTs and firefighters got a ladder across the ravine to the rear bus window, where they could get to Rivers, eventually getting him and Sarah out on stretchers and into an ambulance. Meanwhile they dug frantically in the mud at the front of the bus, clearing the front door so everyone else could come out. To access the rest of the bus from Rivers’ lounge, the fused sliding door was destroyed by the firefighters.
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