NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- John Flansburgh, one half of the alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, suffered serious injuries in a car crash early Thursday morning as he returned to his Upper East Side home after a show.
Flansburgh, 62, was taking a car service to his Upper East Side home after a show at the Bowery Ballroom on the Lower East Side when a drunk driver t-boned the vehicle he was riding in around 12:45 a.m., according to police.
William Mota, 26, slammed his Honda into the musician’s car at the intersection of Park Avenue and E. 102nd Street, flipping it over and causing it to strike a third vehicle, officials said.
EMS rushed Flansburgh and the 32-year-old driver to Cornell Hospital.
He suffered seven broken ribs, some of which have multiple fractures.
The rest of the band’s June tour dates are postponed. They hope to pick back up with their late summer tour that’s scheduled to start August 30.
“Unfortunately, Mr. John Flansburgh was in a rather serious car accident on his way home from the gig,” wrote John Linnell, the co-founder of They Might Be Giants, on the group’s Instagram page. “The good news is that no vital organs were involved and the long-term prognosis seems positive… Please send your healing rays to Flans, drive safely, and we look forward to seeing everyone as soon as possible.”
Flansburgh posted his own update from his hospital bed “under a thick cloud of pain medication.”
“The entire band and crew have been working so hard to create a new show worthy of your interest and your endurance over these miserable Covid years,” he wrote. “Last night was such a victory, and with unplayed new songs in the works and rearrangements of older material with the horn section, it was all feeling like a new beginning. But today I am in the hospital.”
“I would understand anyone thinking we are just a band born under a bad sign and giving up hope, but I also know someday we will rock again — and for me, that day couldn’t come soon enough,” he continued.
In classic, playful form, Flansburgh says he plans on watching reruns of “Sex and the City” until he is strong enough to reach the remote.
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