People driving in Missouri may have done a double take when passing a crashed car along Historic Highway 165 on Sunday.
In a scene that looks like something from television, a General Lee Dodge Charger sat smashed along the highway after it was involved in a one-car crash, The Springfield News-Leader reported.
The Western Taney County Fire Protection District shared photos of the wreckage on Facebook.
Western Taney County Fire along with Taney County Ambulance District and Hollister PD responded to a single vehicle...
Posted by Western Taney County Fire Protection District on Sunday, February 26, 2023
It wasn’t Boss Hogg who investigated the crash.
Instead, Hollister Police Chief Preston Schmidt said that the driver of the vehicle was “traveling too fast for the road conditions and lost control of the vehicle he was operating,” the News-Leader reported.
No citations were issued and the driver and a passenger had moderate injuries.
The fire department said the car was one of 309 General Lee vehicles that were used on the television show, which ran from 1979 to 1985 and starred John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Catherine Bach.
Another 26 were made for the 2005 film, which stared Jonny Knoxville, Sean William Scott and Jessica Simpson.
Schneider owns several of the vehicles, one of which was crushed when Hurricane Ida brought down a tree on top of it in 2019, People magazine reported.
The iconic car has not been without controversy. The vehicle sports a Confederate Flag on its roof. Warner Bros. stopped production of toys and replicas of the car that had the flag decal on them. TV Land also stopped airing the show in 2015 because of the car’s roof, according to People magazine.
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