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- Jessica Savitch
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- [quote]January 16, 1997: Bill Cosby's son, Ennis Cosby (27), was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark freeway exit ramp just outside Los Angeles, California.
How the fuck is a murder a car accident?
- Director Alan J. Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice) died on November 19, 1998 in a freak car accident on the Long Island Expressway in Melville, New York. He was 70 years old. A driver in front of him struck a metal pipe, which went through Pakula's windshield, struck him in the head, and caused him to swerve off the road and into a fence. He was killed instantly
- Francoise Dorleac, Catherine Deneuve's sister, was killed in an automobile accident in 1967. She was 25 years old. .. Many people felt that Francoise was more beautiful than Catherine. She was already making a name for herself in films. .. A real tragedy.
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- Judy Tyler who was on Broadway in Pipe Dream and the love interest for Elvis in Jailhouse Rock.
Adorable Brandon de Wilde (Hud, Shane, Member of the Wedding, In Harm's Way).
- Yes, thanks r5 Brandon de Wilde, precious..
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- I live on Long Island and all of us who were around at the time were so saddened and horrified by Harry Chapin's accident. He was in the left lane and tried to steer off to the side of the road when his car failed, but just couldn't get off in time.
- [quote] Musician and singer Harry Chapin (38) died of a heart attack when his Volkswagen Rabbit was rear-ended by a truck on the Long Island Expressway in New York. Among other hits, Chapin wrote “Cat's in the Cradle.”
This is totally wrong. He was having car trouble and his car gave out. He tried to steer off the roadway but was hit and killed by a truck before he could get off the road.
- Lindsay Lohan
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- Patsy Cline? Or was she in a plane crash.
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- Jayne Mansfield is the most famous celebrity car crash victim. It was gruesome.
- No, R11, James Dean is the most famous celebrity car crash victim.
Jayne Mansfield was always a joke, James Dean was a rising superstar.
Ernie Kovacs was killed in a car crash. Kovacs was a cigar smoker who had a habit of lighting them only with a wooden match. While driving on a rainy night he took both hands off the wheel for a moment to light a cigar. He lost control of the car and drove it straight into a phone pole killing himself.
- R10 ... injured in a car crash, later killed in a plane crash.
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- R12, I know everyone thinks James Dean was all that, but I'm not sure he wouldn't have been a mediocre actor as he aged.
- Morbid topic.
r10, it was a plane crash.
- Yes, R14, but he didn't. He died at the top of his game and so became a legend. Dean's car crash helped make him a legend. Mansfield's car crash was the sad end to a forgettable career.
- Kendall Jenner
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[quote]January 16, 2000: The driver of a truck loaded with evaporated milk was killed when his truck went wild and rammed into the state capitol building in Sacramento, California.
- [quote]January 23, 2000: Linebacker Derrick Thomas (33) of the Kansas City Chiefs broke his neck and one of his friends, Michael Tellis (49), died after Thomas lost control of his Chevrolet Suburban while speeding on a snow-and-ice-covered stretch of Interstate 435. His car hit the median and then rolled several times. Both Thomas and Tellis were not wearing their seat belts and were thrown from the car. Another friend, Joe Hagebusch, who was wearing his seat belt, survived the crash with minor injuries. Thomas was paralyzed [bold]from the waste down[/bold] by his neck injury. Thomas died on February 8th of cardio-respiratory arrest probably caused by a blood clot while attempting to recover from the accident at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.
- *ahem*
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- Thank you, R13. I did google it after all and saw that she died in a plane crash, but I didn't read far enough to see there's a reason I had the car wreck in my mind, too.
- Johnny Horton.
On a foggy night in November of 1960, he was returning from a concert with his manager, Tillman B. Franks, and his bass player, Tommy Tomlinson, when tragedy struck. A car driven by a drunk driver came out of the fog and collided with Johnny's car head on. Horton was killed instantly.
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- September 25, 1937: Blues singer Bessie Smith (43) died from injuries sustained in a car crash when a white hospital refused to tend to her.
That shocked me when i read it from your article OP. Really Americans could be that stupid and inhuman? Jesus Christ!
- Mr Dean
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- From your article it was also shocking this one:
November 11, 1972: Berry Oakley (24), bassist for the Allman Brothers band, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia. The accident occurred only three blocks from the spot where Duane Allman had died in a similar accident in 1971.
Whoa!
Yes R24 James Dean and that commercial, what an irony. Poor James.
- Lindsay Lohan
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- OP from your article Linda Lovelace was also an interesting case.
April 22, 2002: Former porn star Linda Lovelace (aged 53), aka Linda Boreman, died from injuries suffered in a car crash. She starred in the famous Deep Throat porn movie and others before becoming an anti-pornography crusader.
She was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat. She later denounced her pornography career and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement!
- Mary Martin and her love Janet Gaynor were ALMOST killed in a taxi cab crash in San Fran in 1982. Janet died two years later at 77 from the injuries: eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney.
- Comedian Ernie Kovacs
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- Brandon De Wilde, the kid who played Jean Arthur's son in 'Shane' died from injuries that resulted from a traffic accident.
He was thirty years old when he died.
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- August 16, 1949: Margaret Mitchell (aged 48), author of 'Gone With the Wind', died in Atlanta, Georgia several days after being struck down by a speeding taxi driven by an intoxicated cabdriver.
- OP this was shocking too:
August 30, 1991: Country singer Dottie West (58 years old) was killed as a result of riding with her 81-year-old neighbor George Thackston. Trying to make up for lost time on their way to a Grand Ole Opry performance, George sped at 55 mph on an Opryland exit ramp (with a posted speed of 25 mph). George lost control of the car, which left the roadway, went airborne for 165 feet, and struck an embankment. George was severely injured, but Dottie died five days later (September 4) on the operating table. Her liver and spleen had sustained too much damage.
God, forgive me but it was also a bit funny that Dottie demanded from a 81-year-old man to speed up.
- Herb Brooks coach of the 1980 gold medal winning men's Olympic hockey team.
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- Don't overlook FW Murnau, who -- according to Kenneth Anger, a less impeachable source than Darwin Porter -- died in a car wreck with his chauffeur's severed penis in his mouth, killed because his chauffeur involuntarily stepped harder on the gas during orgasm.
- Worth mentioning, perhaps (because I never get tired of talking about F. W. Murnau), that he reportedly cast only gay and lesbian actors in the films he directed. This does not seem to be refuted by his frequent casting of Janet Gaynor -- what of her frequent co-star in his films, Charlie Farrell (who was later cast as Vern Albright, father of My Little Margie, and went on to become mayor of Palm Springs, a post later held by Sonny Bono)?
I think I have too much time on my hands. But who here can cast the first stone?
- Was Murnau gay?
- I don't know if he was gay. I know only that he was reputedly sucking the penis of his driver at the time of his death.
- Anna Malle, an adult film actress, died in a fiery car wreck. It was horrible, they couldn't get her out.
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- Isadora Duncan's death by car accident was especially gruesome...
- This may not mean anything to many people, but it was from my childhood. Thuy Trang, who was the Yellow Ranger (Trini) on MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS.
[quote]According to a CNN interview with Angela Rockwood Nguyen in 2005, Trang died on September 3, 2001, near San Francisco, California after a car accident. She was 27 years old. Trang and former actress/model Angela Rockwood-Nguyen, to whom Trang was to be a bridesmaid to in her then upcoming marriage to Dustin Nguyen, were passengers in a car traveling on Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. They were returning late at night from visiting Rockwood-Nguyen's planned maid of honor when the driver (another of the bridesmaids) of the vehicle she was riding in lost control. The car swerved violently across the road before hitting the roadside rock face and flipping several times before hitting the safety rail and plunging over the bank. Rockwood-Nguyen, who has claimed that she was not wearing a seat belt in different interviews, survived after being thrown out of the vehicle through a window before its final impact; she is now paraplegic. It is thus not known whether Trang or the driver were wearing seatbelts. The driver survived the accident; however, Trang died before reaching the hospital, due to the injuries she had sustained. Trang was cremated a week later on September 10, and her ashes are interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Her Power Rangers co-stars Amy Jo Johnson and David Yost attended the funeral and memorial service to pay respect to their fallen co-star. The episode "Circuit Unsure" of Power Rangers Time Force was dedicated to Trang's memory.
- Ernie Kovacs
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- The most famous, tragic and saddest there ever was: I still miss Princess Diana.
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- Didn't Helmut Newton have a heart attack and crash his car into a wall at the Chateau Marmont while on his way to photograph Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt in 2004?
- Bob Clark, the writer and director of A Christmas Story.
- Some I didn't know about in a timely way.
- The kid on "Hazel"
- Claudia Jennings (didn't know for at least ten years)
- R4, more on Françoise Dorleac's death, from Wikipedia:
[quote]Dorléac died in 1967 when she lost control of the rented Renault 10 she was driving and hit a sign post ten kilometers from Nice at the Villeneuve-Loubet exit of the highway La Provençale. The car flipped over, and burst into flames. She had been en route to Nice airport and was afraid of missing her flight. Dorléac was seen struggling to get out of the car, but was unable to open the door. Police later identified her body only from the fragment of a cheque book, a diary and her driver's licence.
- Remembering Belinda Lee:
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- Silent screen actress Florence LaBadie, in
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- Kevin Coughlin is a forgotten actor of special note to the gay community.
As a child he was slapped and shaken vigorously by Bette Davis after accusing her of being a communist in STORM CENTER from 1956.
In 1969 he played one of two young men who try to dodge the draft by living together as a make-believe gay couple in the notorious comedy THE GAY DECEIVERS. As inept and awful as it was, this was one of the first mainstream US films to plunge head-first into the topic of homosexuality.
According to imdb.com: On January 10, 1976, at 1:45 a.m. as Kevin was cleaning his windshield on Ventura Boulevard 1500 feet North of Whitsett, he was hit by a speeding car. Kevin's wife Marcia Kandell witnessed the tragedy.
- This thread ain't no fun, ya know, without the bloody pictures of the car wrecks and all the dead bodies. Why are you boys suddenly getting so lazy?
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- R32 Dottie West was the first female country singer to win a Grammy.
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- John Denver and Rick Nelson
- Saddest for me was Pre - Steve Prefontaine. His sports car overturned after he lost control of his car late at night. The car rested on his chest and eventually the pressure killed him.
It was the night of this race. See link.
I can't remember which but either Berry or Duane actually walked away from the motorcycle and refused to seek help dying later of head injuries or the like. Shades of Natasha Richardson.
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- John Denver was a plane crash.
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Does Jean Seberg count, she died in a car ...?
- This thread reminds me of that first CRASH movie (with James Spader & Holly Hunter) about people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents. I think they even reference James Dean and Jayne Mansfield.
- February 21, 1974: Hall-of-Fame NHL defenseman Tim Horton (44), who played 24 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres, was killed in an automobile accident shortly after what would be his final professional hockey game. Having drunk a considerable amount of vodka, Horton was driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Buffalo in his De Tomaso Pantera sports car when he failed to make a curve, lost control, and hit a cement culvert. His car flipped over and he was thrown out of the car (he was not wearing his seat belt). His car had been going over 100 miles per hour at the time of the accident. Horton also founded a chain of donut shops that bear his name.
Wow, I love Tim Horton's. I had no idea he died in a drunk driving accident.
- [quote]Judy Tyler who was on Broadway in Pipe Dream and the love interest for Elvis in Jailhouse Rock.
She was Princess SummerFallWinterSpring on "Howdy Doody Time." A few days after Judy Tyler died in a car wreck, PrincessSummerFallWinterSpring was back on "Howdy Doody Time," as a puppet. Probably the only time in show biz that a person was replaced by a puppet.
- Porter Wagner, Nancy Kulp
- Early rocker Eddie Cochran whose biggest hit was "Summertime Blues" died at age 21 in a crash in England.
- Wow, Kevin Coughlin! I hadnt thought about him in years. He was in a gazillion tv shows as a child and teen actor. Like so many child/teen actors of the 50s and 60s, he was dropped by casting agents as soon as he became an adult.
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- Poor old Richard Threlkeld, a retired tv reporter, died exactly one year ago today in a car accident in Amagansett.
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- Froggy from the Our Gang shorts was struck and killed on a bicycle.
- Why are people like r59 just making up shit? Are you bored?
Both died of cancer.
- The Our Gang/Little Rascals didn't do so well overall, did they?
Alfalfa was murdered
Chubby (Chubsy Wubsy) died at 22 after an operation for a glandular condition.
Darla died of hepatitis at 47
Brisbane committed suicide
Micky Daniels died of liver disease at 55
Stymie died of pneumonia at 56
Scotty Beckett died at 38 in a nursing home, possibly of a drug overdose or a beating
Wheezed died in a plane crash at age 19
Alfalfa's brother Harold (Slim) was also murdered. He was killed in his 50s.
Waldo was killed by a drunk driver, but at least he lived to be In his 70s
JR was stabbed to deth by a homeless man, but he at least lived to an old age
Buckwheat died if a heart attack at 49
The aforementioned Froggy died in a motor scooter accident at 16
Robert H Young, "Bonedust" died in his 30s from smoking in bed
Dorothy Dandridge only had a bit role in one Our Gang short and she committed suicide in her 40s.
Robert Blake went on to suffer a horrifying facelift in later life. Oh yeah, and he was acquitted of killing his wife, even though he did it.
- How about Princess Grace of Monaco? Her daughter Stephanie was driving the car and she may have also had a stroke, although the official announcement was that Grace was driving in order to spare Stephanie the grief of driving the car that killed her mother.
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- Ron Pearlman
- Steve Allen. He was in what he thought was a "minor" car accident, But in fact he'd broken for ribs and ruptured a blood vessel which caused blood to slowly cause a pericardial tamponade. He died in his sleep from the effects of the accident.
- Marc Bolan of T Rex. Gloria Jones was driving the car.
- Falco, of "Der Kommisar" and "Rock Me Amadeus" fame. His Mitsubishi hit a speeding bus in the Dominican Republic.
- Jessica Savitch's death was truly horrifying. No drugs or alcohol were involved - her date that evening was driving out of a restaurant parking lot in a pouring rainstorm so visibility was poor, and accidentally drove off an embankment that didn't have any guardrails or other barriers. The car landed upside-down in about four feet of mud which sealed the doors shut and Savitch, her boyfriend and her dog all drowned. It was a horrible freak acccident.
- NO, nancy kulp of the Beverly hillbillies died of cancer.
- Car crashes are the preferred way to get rid of characters on EastEnders.
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- Lawrence of Arabia died in the UK when he swerved his motorcycle to avoid hitting some kids on bicycles.
- Billy Martin, creepy Yankees manager
- General George S Patton
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- Dr Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon who did Heidi Montag makeover. Took a picture of his dog while driving on the PCH, tweeted the photo and drove off a cliff. He was killed, the dog was thrown clear and had minor injuries.
- Celebrity sheriff Buford Pusser, who survived seven shootings, eight stabbings and the assassination attempt which killed his wife, died when he was thrown from his Corvette in 1974.
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- Tuesday Weld
- EY Yip Harburg, the great songwriter and lyricist of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Finian's Rainbow," died in a car crash. But they determined he had had a heart attack and that's why he crashed.
- Harry Chapin actually died of a heart attack. He had the heart attack while driving on the Long Island Expressway, a truck hit his car and then burst into flames, but two people were able to pull him from the wreckage. He died of cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital. He would've died that day even if he had not been driving.
- Tuesday Weld isn't dead, idiot at r79.
- [quote] Billy Martin, creepy Yankees manager
Hey. That is uncalled for. We love you, Billy!
- People rewrite history on the Internet. Chapin's accident was witnessed by many people. It was midday on the LIE. His car had a failed and he tried to steer the car from the left lane to the center lane to the right lane and off the road. He'd put his flashers on and was signaling with his arm that his car was in trouble. The traffic was too fast and couldn't stop in time and his small car was destroyed by a truck that went over the car at a high rate of speed. It is doubtful he would have "died of a heart attack" that same day in the car or out of it.
Chapin was a careless driver. His license had been revoked. Believe me, it is a lot easier to get your license revoked nowadays than it was back then. His wife shouldn't have gotten a huge settlement from the trucking firm. It was in no way the fault of the truck driver that he could not stop in time. It is no doubt his family who are claiming he would have died of a heart attack if he'd been sitting at home. It was pretty common to list cardiac arrest as a cause of death back in those days if there wasn't one injury the coroner could definitively cite as cause of death.
Multiple people saw him signaling that his car was in trouble. You don't put on your blinkers, put your arm out the window of your car and then slam on the brake when you are dying of a heart attack. This whole "he died of a heart attack while driving" bullshit is a recent story pushed by his grown kids. Chapin has been glorified to near-saint status so his foundation can be kept going. He has a little bit of a Gilda's Club thing going on -- young people don't really know him or care about him.
He wasn't at all a bad person, but he was negligent about cars and driving. It sounds better to make up a story about how "nobody knows if he had a heart attack before or after the accident. He led such a hectic life because he cared so much about his music, his fans and his charity! His caring too much ultimately killed him!" I'd probably do the same thing if I was one of his kids. I wouldn't want young people to know my father was so negligent that his license had been revoked for a shitload of unpaid fines and violations and that whoops, dad drove crazily, didn't take care of his cars, didn't obey traffic laws and then died in a car accident.
I know there was an urban legend claiming he was decapitated, but that was never recounted by actual eyewitnesses to the accident.
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