Hardy’s star has been continually on the rise in the country music world, but it turns out what fans see today almost never came to be.

The star recently revealed that during an interview with Rolling Stone on their Nashville Now podcast. Hardy and his crew were in a serious accident back in 2022 when his tour bus left the roadway along I-40 West to Nashville after a show in Bristol, Tennessee. The bus was reportedly going 70 miles per hour at the time, and it flipped several times before coming to a rest in the woods.

All four members on board and the bus driver survived.

Hady did have a laceration on his head and a fractured back, per Whiskey Riff, but things could have been much worse.

“It went from being a bus to a movie set, like a bomb went off,” Hardy remembered of the crash. “I crawled out of the front windshield, which was busted open. The bus had gone so far down the hill that you couldn’t see it from the highway. So, all these trucks and cars were flying by and they couldn’t see us. I had a black hoodie with a big white circle on it and all I could think to do is take that hoodie off and try to wave people down. I did that for 30 minutes and I could not get somebody to stop.”

That is when he revealed just how much worse his situation could have been.

“When I woke up, the bus windows are long … and my head was underneath the top of the panel,” he said. “If we would have slid another foot, it’d have cut my head off.”

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