NEW YORK — Weezer has canceled the remainder of its December tour dates on the heels of Sunday’s tour bus crash on a New York State Thruway.
“We are sorry to say that the rest of the December Raditude Tour has been canceled,” the band said in a statement on its official Web site. “When we can reschedule the dates we will, of course.”
Lead singer Rivers Cuomo and his assistant, Sarah Kim, were taken to a local hospital following the accident, which happened around 7:18 a.m. in the upstate town of Glen, located about 40 miles west of Albany.
Rivers, 39, suffered three broken ribs, as well as what was described by the band as “minor internal injuries.” He remains hospitalized, although surgery appears unlikely.
Kim sustained two fractured ribs and a fractured lower vertebrae. She has since been released from the hospital, the band said.
Cuomo’s wife, Kyoko Ito, and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Mia, were also among the passengers, but escaped unharmed.
The accident occurred when the bus struck a patch of black ice on the road, sending the vehicle into a ditch alongside the highway.
“The driver employed every ounce of skill he had in fighting to keep the bus upright, as the vehicle violently fishtailed over the highway,” the band said. “And while the bus did indeed go off the road, plunging about 8-10 vertical feet into a muddy ravine off to the right of the Thruway thus coming to a very abrupt stop, it did not flip or roll, despite having plowed right over a guardrail, flattening it. Kudos to the driver for somehow keeping things as level as they could be — surely this story would have been far more tragic if not for his actions.”
