Adding to the list of recent bands who have been involved in accidents while on tour, Lydia survived a van wreck last night in Pennsylvania that was caused by one of nature's most accident-prone animals ... a deer!



"Last night we were fortunate enough to make it out all okay after hitting a HUGE deer on an interstate in PA," keyboardist Mindy White explained in a recent MySpace blog. "It completely shredded our engine but luckily didn't completely total it. We are currently in a rental car on the way to our trailer to grab what we cant fit to head to Chicago. We're going to continue the tour acoustic and ride with the other bands until we can get our can fixed to meet back up with us."

Lydia is currently on a U.S. tour with Copeland, in support of their second full-length, 2008's <I>Illuminate</i>.

This has not been a good two months for bands and their travels. Just last week, Against Me! was involved in a bus accident on the way to their show in Salt Lake City, Utah. "I woke to the sound of my friends screaming, various expletives, inarticulate gasps, the sensation of spinning, and the sound of crashing inside and outside the bus. My eyes opened to blackness. I immediately pressed my hands and feet into the roof of my bunk as hard as I could, bracing for what I did not know," Tom Gabel explained of the accident in his personal blog. The accident was a result of an ice patch that knocked over the trailer, spilling Against Me! merchandise all over the interstate. Luckily, nobody was hurt!

Just two days before Against Me!'s fiasco, Kill Hannah survived a fire that destroyed their tour bus. "We wake up to the smell of toxic smoke and the serious tone of our Tour Manager shouting three words you never want to hear: "Bus on Fire," singer Matt Devine explained in a recent statement. "Within seconds, all band members (including support act My Passion), crew and guests were standing shirtless and shoeless on the side of the winding road as the entire 2-floor 45ft bus was fully engulfed in flames. Windows began bursting from the heat and there were several large explosions." Once again, everyone made it out alive.

What safety percautions, if any, could bands take in the futher to avoid further incidents like these?