Things Happen in Threes
As the newly formed group was preparing for a reunion tour in 1986, tragedy struck again. Collins, who already had several traffic-related convictions, crashed his car in Jacksonville, Florida. He ended up killing his girlfriend, who was in the car and left himself paralyzed from the waist down. As a result, he was unable to play music anymore.
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Literally adding insult to injury, Collins was then charged with manslaughter. Not only that, he was supposed to appear on stage throughout the new tour in his wheelchair. It was partly meant to warn the audience about the dangers of drunk driving. But by then, his health was failing. By 1990, at the age of 37, Allen Collins passed away after a battle with pneumonia.