October 12, (THEWILL) – Willie Spence, the singer, who came second in the 2021 edition of American Idol, died in a car accident in Tennessee on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
The news was first reported by a local outlet, DouglasNow and a family source told TMZ that Spence crashed into a semi-truck parked on the side of the road while driving home to Atlanta from Tennessee. The source said that Spence had a flat tire fixed on his car earlier on Tuesday.
A preliminary accident report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol revealed that Spence’s Jeep crashed into the back of the truck around 4 p.m. in Jasper. He was taken to the hospital, where he died of his injuries.
The singer had posted a video of himself singing in the car earlier on Tuesday and was in the midst of promoting a show he was set to play at the Trinity Baptist Church in London on Nov. 12.
