Air Drum Solo Gone Wrong Leads to 14 Dead, 33 Injured

Phil Collins causes carnage on I - 805

Tragedy struck the greater San Deigo area today as an ill-timed air drum solo led to a thirteen vehicle pile up on the 805, causing multiple fatalities and clogging rush hour traffic. Witnesses say that the initial cause of the accident was a pickup truck that seemed to lose control for no reason. The truck then careened into a charter bus full of senior citizens, flipped over and burst into flames. The resulting carnage involved 12 other cars, a tractor-trailer and a bus.

Early reports from the San Deigo Police Department indicate that the cause of the accident was an air drum solo during Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight". The driver of the pickup truck, Steve Dubinski, age 32, suffered only minor injuries and was taken into custody where he revealed that the loss of control was caused by an errant drum solo. His statement first taken by the SDPD, has now been released to the media.

"Well I was listening to 101.5 KGB and they had that Phil Collins song on, In the Air Tonight, the one about the guy who was drowning, and well that part came on where the drums first kick in, you know the part in the movie 'Hangover' where Mike Tyson does it, although he doesn't punch out Zach Galifinakis at the end like he appears to in the trailer which I thought was kind of a rip-off because that was way funnier than how he did it in the actual movie. Anyway I took my hands off the wheel to do it, because I was trying to impress this chick who was in the truck with me, and it looks way cooler if you do it two handed, and I must have hit a pothole or something cuz I was half way through the solo and the truck veered to the right and hit this bus. I tried to finish the solo but the truck was airborne at this point and I think i missed the last beat. When I woke up there were sirens everywhere and the song was over."

The passenger, Theresa Douglas, age 21, suffered a lacerated face but is expected to make a full recovery. The names of the deceased have been withheld as family has been notified, but most of the fatalities were a result of the senior citizens bus rolling over an embankment.

San Deigo Police Chief William Lansdowne was unavailable for interview but records indicate that this is the third such incident involving air-instrument-solo's gone wrong to strike San Deigo this year. The death total now stands at 45 with 89 injured and over 10 million dollars in property damage. 

Mr. Dubinski is being held without bail on 14 counts of vehicular homicide and reckless driving.