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12 Hurt In Crash Involving Band Tour Buses Amid Fog

DENVER (AP/CBS4) - A dozen people were injured in a crash involving tour buses for two different bands and two trucks on a foggy stretch of Interstate 70 east of Denver on Friday, as a spring storm made driving dangerous across Colorado.

A bus carrying crew members for the Brooklyn-based performer Twin Shadow rear-ended a semi-trailer stopped on the highway, seriously injuring 41-year-old bus driver John Crawford, the Colorado State Patrol said. Eleven other people on that bus suffered minor to moderate injuries.

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The Twin Shadow bus then hit another truck and a tour bus carrying crew members of the country band Thompson Square. No one in those vehicles was injured.

Both bands were headed to Denver for shows Friday night, but they were not traveling together.

Thompson Square issued a statement saying their thoughts and prayers were with those who were injured.

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Dorelle Zahn, the mother of the Twin Shadow's keyboard player Spencer Zahn, told The Denver Post that he texted her to say that he had been in an accident, was in pain but conscious.

The crash happened not far from Denver International Airport, where fog was also a problem. Some smaller regional flight arrivals had to be diverted to Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

Twin Shadow was set to play at The Bluebird Theater and the show had to be canceled.

Thompson Square's show still was set to take place in the National Western complex.

By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press ... Associated Press photographer David Zalubowski in Aurora contributed to this report.

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