{"id":31128,"date":"2024-12-31T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-31-1984-def-leppards-rick-allen-lost-arm-in-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:02:53","slug":"on-this-day-dec-31-1984-def-leppards-rick-allen-lost-arm-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-31-1984-def-leppards-rick-allen-lost-arm-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 31, 1984: Def Leppard\u2019s Rick Allen lost arm in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-26\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_1.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 31, 1984 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Def Leppard<\/strong> drummer <strong>Rick Allen<\/strong> lost his left arm in a car crash in Sheffield, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After trying to pass a driver who had been taunting him on the road, Allen lost control of his vehicle, hitting a wall. His arm wound up getting caught in the seat belt and was severed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While doctors initially tried to reattach the arm, it later had to be amputated due to infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Allen\u2019s career as a drummer looked in doubt, but he eventually learned to play again on a specially designed electronic drum kit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Allen\u00a0and\u00a0Def Leppard\u00a0returned to the stage for his\u00a0first concert following\u00a0the accident\u00a0on Aug. 16, 1986, at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donington, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He continues to perform with Def Leppard, with the band\u2019s next show\u00a0scheduled for Jan. 11 at the Harvest Nights Festival in Immokalee, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 31, 1984 &#8230; Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash in Sheffield, England. After trying to pass a driver who had been taunting him on the road, Allen lost control of his vehicle, hitting a wall. His arm wound up<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-31-1984-def-leppards-rick-allen-lost-arm-in-car-crash\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}