Louisville, KY (September 24, 2026)—Veteran live sound engineer/musician HB Abels died Wednesday after spending days in critical condition following a multi-vehicle Uber accident last Friday, September 18.
Ables was enroute to the Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, Kentucky at the time of the three-car accident. Ejected from his Uber ride by the crash, Abel sustained a traumatic brain injury and extensive chest injuries, according to a GoFundMe campaign started for the engineer and his retired mother.
According to local CBS affiliate WLKY, Ables was due to mix the band Soil that day, though the band later disputed that in a social media post memorializing Abels, noting “the truth is he was doing a corporate gig and was in the area and he wanted to come out and see us and hang out.”…