John King, a 26-year-old country music artist best known for his hit song “Tonight, Tonight” was involved in a fatal car accident, according to a recent news article from Taste of Country. Authorities say a classic car was traveling west on U.S. Highway 158 around the Kitty Hawk, North Carolina area when its T-top roof somehow flew off the car. This occurred around 1 a.m. Once the roof flew off his car, the driver stopped and tried to get the T-top out of the active roadway and back to his car, so it could be fixed. He was stopped on a bridge at the time.
Authorities say King was driving his SUV, which was pulling a trailer filled with his performance equipment, when he came upon the stopped vehicle. The car was stopped in the travel lane of the highway, and King had no way to get out of the way and collided with the vehicle. At this point, the driver who was out his car trying to recover the T-top either decided to jump off the bridge or was somehow thrown off the bridge at time of impact and landed in the water below. Fortunately, he was not injured when he landed in the water. Continue reading