William DuVall remembers November 22, 1973 as if it was yesterday. He remembers the traffic lights turning green and his family’s car starting to go faster and faster. He remembers the violent shaking as the car veered off the road. He remembers seeing the construction fencing they were hurtling towards. And he remembers what came next.“One of the fence poles broke through the floor of the truck, hit my father in the chest, came out through his back and went out the rear window,” says the singer. “I saw the pole go through him. There was glass, blood and viscera everywhere. He was impaled.”William was just six at the time. He was in a pickup truck with his dad, his stepmother – who was pregnant with his little brother – and his dad’s friend Lox on the Suitland Parkway, a highway ...
