Modest Mouse Frontman in Modest Car Crash

It's hard to imagine a more Portland moment. The frontman of the Portland-based band Modest Mouse, who notoriously trashed Portland in an interview last year, fell asleep at the wheel Wednesday, causing a crash of Subarus.

Isaac Brock was given a ticket for careless driving after falling asleep at the wheel as he drove eastbound over the Morrison Bridge. Sleeping, he failed to stop as he approached stopped traffic on Southeast Grand Street.

Brock hit a City of Portland pickup truck, which then hit a Subaru, which then hit another Subaru, which then hit a car that drove off, perhaps not aware it had been tapped, say police.

Police determined he had not been driving under the influence and was not arrested.

There were no serious injuries.

Modest Mouse had performed in Portland at the Moda Center just a few days earlier.

Modest Mouse, which started in a Seattle suburb, was a major indie band in the aughts.

The band has been based in Portland for several years, which Brock said was not his first choice last year during an appearance in Poland.

"I didn't mean to live in Portland," he said. "It was an accident. Portland's weird, but it's kind of a crappy weird. It is the most vagrant-ridden... what a collection of human turds.

"Within the one week before I came on this tour, I had to run people out of my house twice with axes."

Brock's crash also weirdly echoed the opening of the Modest Mouse song, "Float On."

"I backed my car into a cop car the other day

Well, he just drove off - sometimes life's okay

I ran my mouth off a bit too much, ah what did I say?

Well, you just laughed it off and it was all okay."

Photo from Dankstick via Wikimedia Commons