Weezer star Rivers Cuomo has been cleared by doctors to leave a New York hospital - following a freak bus accident that left him with a punctured lung and three broken ribs.

The singer was admitted to Albany Medical Center after a crash en route to a show at Boston University's Agganis Arena in Massachusetts on Sunday.

Emergency crews were forced to break into the bus to rescue Cuomo, who was trapped in the wreckage and could not move or speak because of his injuries.

The accident forced the cancellation of the band's winter tour - but Cuomo will be forced to step on another bus to make the cross-country road trip back to his home in Los Angeles.

A posting on the group's website reads, "Rivers was given the go ahead to be released from the hospital! He elected to take an additional night to rest there, while we prepared a bus for the cross country trip to L.A., to begin today, Friday...One of the strict doctors orders is that Rivers cannot get on an airplane for a month, as the air pressure changes would be bad for his healing punctured lung. So there's only one other quick way to get him home to L.A., and that's a tour bus. I'll be riding with him, making sure hes ok, and we'll have two drivers trading off driving and sleeping, so we don't have to stop!"

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