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Feb 23, 2021 · Collins lost control of the car, drove the vehicle off the road, and flipped the vehicle in a violent crash. Both he and his girlfriend were airlifted to the hospital. His girlfriend died, and he was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Jan 29, 2016 · On Jan. 29, 1986, Collins was at the wheel during a one-car accident in South Jacksonville, Fla., that resulted in the death of his girlfriend and left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Sep 6, 2016 · The band was hit with a pair of near-tragedies over Labor Day weekend that year, when guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins were both involved in a pair of potentially disastrous car...
Jan 29, 1986 · A Jacksonville woman riding with former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins was killed Jan. 29 when Collins apparently lost control of a car on a south Jacksonville road, police said.
Jan 24, 1990 · Allen Collins, who lost fellow members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd in a 1977 plane crash and was paralyzed four years ago in a drunken driving accident, died Tuesday of pneumonia.
Mar 6, 2023 · Along with the deaths of Ronnie Van Zant, the Gaines siblings, and Bob Burns, guitarist Allen Collins was paralyzed in a 1986 car accident and died at age 37 in 1990.
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On October 20, 1977, an airplane carrying the band crashed into a forest in Mississippi, killing three band members, including Van Zant. Collins was seriously injured in the crash, suffering two broken vertebrae in his neck and severe damage to his right arm.
