Had way more than his share of bad luck.
Country rap legend Colt Ford was injured this morning in a tour bus accident that forced first responders to pull him out through the windshield.
According to Ford, he suffered a broken shoulder and other members of his crew were “banged up,” but otherwise everyone is ok.
“One minute you’re headed to Germany for a show and prepping for single release the next thing you know your Bus is in the ditch and you’re getting pulled through a windshield with a broken shoulder by First Responders. The crew is a little banged up but we’re all still here.”
Of course the accident comes just over two years after Ford suffered a near-fatal heart attack after performing a show at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Arizona.
Weeks after the medical emergency, the 54-year-old detailed the scary event, revealing that he was declared clinically dead three times before being stabilized:
“It’s just been a traumatic, crazy experience, guys. I don’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix. I died three times. Luckily, my band came out to check on me…they came out to check on me, and then all of a sudden they were like, ‘Oh God,’ and then that is when all hell broke loose.”
This Mayo Clinic out here in Phoenix, if it was going to happen, God could not have had me in a better place. The big doc out here said, ‘I wouldn’t give me 1%, but I give you 0.1% that you’d survive.’ They brought me back. They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.”
Luckily Colt made it through after 20 hours or surgery, and even returned to the road in 2025, just a year later. Since then he’s been back out on tour, with his next show scheduled for this Saturday, August 15 at Tailgate X in Ballenstedt, Germany before returning to the United States for a show at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on August 19.
There’s no word yet on whether those shows will be impacted by the accident and Colt’s injuries.
During an interview on the Try That In A Small Town podcast, the “Dirt Road Anthem” co-writer opened up on what it’s like to be on the road again after a traumatic event like that:
“Now I’ve got crazy anxiety and nerves. I’ve never had that before. So it’s been an ongoing process that’s a lot to deal with.
The first time I went to get back on the bus I started to step on it and I was like, ‘Wait, oh, last time I was on here y’all carried me off here dead.’ So a lot of things like that you don’t think about until they’re back in the situation. I don’t even sit where I used to sit in my bus anymore because that’s where I was sitting when it happened.”
And he also recalled the first time he woke up after clinically dying – and what he saw while he was gone.
As it turns out, the last thing Colt saw before he finally woke up was his good friend Toby Keith, stepping out of a bright light with a message for him:
“He used to call me Little Dog Daddy. You know, for most people you’d go, ‘I don’t want to be Little Dog.’… But it’s freaking Toby, so you’re like, yeah, he feels like a superhero.
And I woke up by, literally, a light bright as it could be, and Toby stepped out and said, ‘They’re not ready for you, Little Dog, you need to go on back down there.'”
When Toby Keith tells you they’re not ready for you, you listen.
You really hate to hear that overcoming all that to get back on the road, Colt has suffered another setback. Prayers to Uncle Colt, and hopefully he’s back out on the road soon.
