He referred to this incident in the Doors' song ' Peace Frog' on their 1970 album Morrison Hotel, as well as in the spoken word performances 'Dawn's Highway' and 'Ghost Song' on the posthumous 1978 album An American Prayer. Morrison believed this incident to be the most formative event of his life, and made repeated references to it in the imagery in his songs, poems, and interviews.
His family does not recall this traffic incident happening in the way he told it. According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, Morrison's family did drive past a car accident on an Indian reservation when he was a child, and he was very upset by it.
