Chris 'Crash' Clark back on Atlanta radio at Dave FM, V-103 and WAOK-AM

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Crash was fired from 99X in late 2005 after allowing a couple get a bit too close in a bathroom to get 311 tickets at a local bar. Soon after, Crash landed a job with two other former 99Xers Fred Toucher and Rich Shertenlieb at a rock station WBCN-FM in Boston.  The team eventually moved to an FM sports station. But while Rich and Fred have survived on the new format, Crash was let go in March.

Crash at the time said it was a financial decision, and the departure was amicable.

He moved back to Atlanta in May and had been collecting unemployment checks and playing golf, based on his correspondence with me.

Ramona Debreaux, the traffic gal at V-103, will continue to do weekends and fill-in work. I presume she's still in the running for the open mid-day slot. Dave FM's traffic guy Bob Carter was not an employee of Dave FM per se. He was part of a company called Metro Traffic which CBS had hired to do traffic. He was reassigned to other stations, though not necessarily in Atlanta. Crash is in-house at CBS Radio, which owns Dave, V-103 and WAOK.

"Bob [Carter] is a class act," Baron said in  an interview today.

In May, Crash visited Jimmy and Yvonne on air soon after he moved back. It was a bit awkward for Carter, who actually wondered on the air whether his traffic job was on the line.

“I am not a home wrecker, I assure you,” Crash told Carter at the time on the air.

Crash was an important player on the Morning X during its heyday in the 1990s well into the 2000s. He had that "got drunk, partied too hard" persona and got into many dust ups with management over his behavior. But he was always that likable dude fans enjoyed hanging out with when he was doing promotional events.

Crash didn't respond over the weekend to an email inquiry. Program director Scott Jameson hasn't returned a call and text for comment.

It may seem odd that Crash would be on a hip-hop station. But he was "Crash D" on what was then Hot 97.5 back in the mid-1990s.

During the first extended talk break at 6:03 a.m. (extended on Dave being two minutes or so), Clark actively participated with Jimmy and Yvonne wondering what Oprah Winfrey is going to do today to top her car giveaway a few years ago now that she's back for her final season.

Mark Arum, traffic guy at AM 750 and now 95.5FM News/Talk WSB, sent Crash a teasing Facebook note this morning: "I have missed you stealing my traffic info. Welcome back!"

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