Twin Shadow Discusses Gruesome Hand Injury in First Post-Bus Crash Interview

Twin Shadow Discusses Gruesome Hand Injury in First Post-Bus Crash Interview

Twin Shadow and their crew were involved in a bus crash earlier this year that left 12 people hospitalized. In his first interview since the crash, George Lewis Jr. has now opened up about that experience in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered.

Lewis said he was restless the night of the crash and was awake when it happened.

“I think my phone rang, and I reached for it — and right in that moment, I just was thrown across the room and kind of landed with everything that was in the back lounge on top of me. There was a couch that had flipped on top of me, a mattress had come off the bed and was on top of me … The first thing I realized was that I couldn’t pick myself up with my hand, then [I remember] looking at my hand and seeing the bones sticking, kind of making a teepee out of my hand.”

He said that he’s unsure what caused the accident, but said that emergency responders quickly arrived to the scene.

“I’ve never seen people show up that fast. With a chainsaw, they cut out the whole side of the bus and got everyone out. Almost everyone had some kind of injury where they couldn’t immediately walk. So everybody came out on these gurneys one by one. There was so many of us that the hospitals couldn’t take everyone, so we kind of got split up between two hospitals, which was really stressful for all of us, because that was everyone’s biggest concern: Is everybody going to be OK?”

Lewis’ hand required reconstructive surgery, which he said makes playing guitar difficult and painful. 

Read the interview here.

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