Celebrities Killed in Car Wrecks Only
C40
in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
Grace Kelly
Sam Kinison
Billy Martin (Baseball Manager)
Jessica Savitch (NBC Anchor)
James Dean
Jayne Mansfield
Johnny Horton ("Battle of New Orleans")
Tom Mix (Movie Actor in 1930s)
Marc Bolan (T-Rex, Bang-a-gong )
Princess Diana (obviously)
Harry Chapin (Singer-songwriter, Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle)
danny burstein
>wrote:
>> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>
>> Grace Kelly
[snip]
It's extending your definition a bit, but how about giving Isadora Duncan
at least an honrable mention?
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<dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>>In article <3D9D2E1A...@pgdwest.net>, C40 <cg...@pgdwest.net>
>>wrote:
>
>>> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>>> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>>> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>>
>>> Grace Kelly
>
>[snip]
>
>It's extending your definition a bit, but how about giving Isadora Duncan
>at least an honrable mention?
Or ... how about Jim Reeves - in a car?
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Ernie Kovacks
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
Drazen Petrovic (NBA Star)
Derrick Thomas (Kansas City Chiefs)
Dottie West (Country Singer)
Steve Prefontaine (Runner)
Moondog Lonnie Mayne (Pro Wrestler)
Adrian Adonis (Pro Wrestler)
"Junkyard Dog" Sylvester Ritter (Pro Wrestler)
Isadora Duncan
Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)
Bessie Smith
Jackson Pollock (painter)
Albert Camus
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Loki
I think that Margaret Mitchell was run over. Boxing greats Salvadore
Sanchez and Carlos Monzon both died in car wrecks as did Desmond
Llewelen and singer Falco. Don Budge died about a month after a
serious car wreck, but I am not sure if he would count.
Loki
LandonEx
>in car crashes ONLY.
Silent movie director F.W. Murnau ("Nosferatu, the Vampire")
=L=
Loki
Alan J. Pakula
Linda Lovelace
Steve Prefontaine
Loki
James L. Neibaur
Eric Campbell (Chaplin's nemesis in many silents)
Kirby Grant (Sky King)
Gene Roth (actor in Stooges movies "Give me that fillum!")
Hercules Cortez (wrestler)
Charles Butterworth (actor, said to be a suicide)
Jesse Belvin (r&b singer, "Goodnight My Love")
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Brandon De Wilde (Kid in Shane)
Jack Johnson (First black heavyweight champion)
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I don't think Margaret Mitchell fits into the catagory "car wreck" since she
wasn't in a car at the time but if the definition gets expaned to "death by
car" then it would work.
Volfie (always wished she had lived long enough to write a sequel instead of
the pitiful "Scarlett" one we got a few years ago)
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Richie Powell
Scott Lofaro
Dave Lambert
Brian Watson
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>
> >At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> >in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> >doubt a lot more.
> Jackson Pollock (painter)
And I'm thinking, "Bet he wound up looking like one of his paintings," and
then I'm thinking, "should I mention it?" and then I'm thinking, "sometimes
mouth-restraint doesn't come easy."
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Genetasia
>in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>doubt a lot more.
Larry Blyden, Broadway actor and last host of syndicated "What's My Line,"
perished in one three weeks before his 50th birthday in 1975.
Paul Grayson
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> And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
Not even Grand Prix driver Mike Hawthorn, World Drivers Champion in 1958,
who died in a car crash on the Guildford bypass in 1959?
Fred Smith
>
> > And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
> Not even Grand Prix driver Mike Hawthorn, World Drivers Champion in 1958,
> who died in a car crash on the Guildford bypass in 1959?
>
I believe racer Stan Fox died a regular automobile accident in New Zealand
as well and not on a track so he should be counted.
Kent
Mel Ott, New York Giants baseball player, died in a car accident back in
1958
Herb Shriner, 50's TV star/game show host died in a car accident in 1970
Sheriff Buford Pusser ("Walking Tall") died in a car accident
Eugene Shoemaker, who co-discovered the comet that smashed into Jupiter,
died in a car accident
John Holahan, the guy who invented the breakfast cereal Lucky Charms, died
in a car accident in 2000 (no jokes, please LOL)
W.G. Sebald, German writer, died in a car accident last year
Kent
Dead or Alive?
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Mack Twamley
Desmond Llewellyn (Q in the James Bond series)
Ian Bannen
Robert Shaw
吵o吩oo
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:49:37 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
> <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>> In article <3D9D2E1A...@pgdwest.net>, C40 <cg...@pgdwest.net>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>>>> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are
no
>>>> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>>>
>>>> Grace Kelly
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> It's extending your definition a bit, but how about giving
Isadora
>> Duncan at least an honrable mention?
>
> Or ... how about Jim Reeves - in a car?
Plane crash.
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> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
Motorcycle crashes count?
Don Rich (guitarist/vocalist - Buck Owens country band)
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> "Ed Varner" <evar...@aol.comm> wrote in message
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>>
>> Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
>> Drazen Petrovic (NBA Star)
>> Derrick Thomas (Kansas City Chiefs)
>> Dottie West (Country Singer)
>> Steve Prefontaine (Runner)
>> Moondog Lonnie Mayne (Pro Wrestler)
>> Adrian Adonis (Pro Wrestler)
>> "Junkyard Dog" Sylvester Ritter (Pro Wrestler)
>> Isadora Duncan
>> Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)
>> Bessie Smith
>> Jackson Pollock (painter)
>> Albert Camus
>>
>> ED
>
> I don't think Margaret Mitchell fits into the catagory "car wreck" since she
> wasn't in a car at the time but if the definition gets expaned to "death by
> car" then it would work.
>
> Volfie (always wished she had lived long enough to write a sequel instead of
> the pitiful "Scarlett" one we got a few years ago)
Same with Isadora Duncan - "death by car" would be more appropriate than
"car wreck". She died when her scarf was caught in the wheel of the car
she was riding in.
Jim Beaver
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IIRC, Shaw died of a heart attack while on a drive, but there was no
accident or crash.
Jim Beaver
Paul Grayson
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Also Mike Hailwood, motorcycle racer turned Grand Prix driver.
Bob Flaminio
If so, add T. E. Lawrence.
-Bob
Mary Campbell
Another category - people who died because of a car wreck, but didn't die
*in* the car wreck:
Steve Allen - not in a car crash but later, as a result of the accident.
He was in a fender bender and seemed to have escaped without injuries, but
actually suffered heart damage that killed him a few hours later.
Linda Lovelace - also died not in the crash, but after it.
Gen. George S. Patton - died of a broken neck, one week after being in a
car accident.
KazamaSmokers
Falco
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
Eddie Cochran ('50s rock star -- Gene Vincent died in the early '70s
from complications related to injuries suffered in the same crash)
Marc Bolan ('70s rock star -- his song "20th Century Boy" has been in a
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>
>Not even Grand Prix driver Mike Hawthorn, World Drivers Champion in 1958,
>who died in a car crash on the Guildford bypass in 1959?
>
>
Nor "Mike the Bike" Hailwood, who died, along with his son, in a single-vehicle
crash?
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>At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
>Grace Kelly
>Sam Kinison
>Billy Martin (Baseball Manager)
>Jessica Savitch (NBC Anchor)
>James Dean
Well, Dean often seemed to *think* he was a race car driver.
>Jayne Mansfield
>Johnny Horton ("Battle of New Orleans")
>Tom Mix (Movie Actor in 1930s)
>Marc Bolan (T-Rex, Bang-a-gong )
>Princess Diana (obviously)
>Harry Chapin (Singer-songwriter, Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle)
Queen Astrid of Belgium
steve eddy
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So what happened to Mr. Shaw then? Did his car take over and drive him on to
the funeral home? ;-)~
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Loki
wrote:
Extending the definition that way, Jerry Rubin would also qualify.
Loki
Loki
wrote:
>
Don Budge and Dottie West also died after the wrecks as a result of
injures sustained.
Would Jessica Savitch count? She was in a wreck, but it wasn't the
wreck that killed her. She drowned.
Loki
Lady Taker
> *in* the car wreck:
The guy who mowed down Stephen King.
Volfie (oh, sure, Stephen would have you believe otherwise, but, really..)
Erik L.
The 2002 American League East Division Champion New York Yankees
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B-movie actress Roxanne Kernohan ("Critters 2," "Not of This Earth," etc.) died
after being in a coma for some time following a car accident.
Erich
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"C40" <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote in message
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> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
Nathanael West (writer) with wife Eileen McKenney (the Eileen of My Sister
Eileen)
Joe Pucillo
> Pelle Lingbergh (sp?)
Lindbergh. Per-Erik Lindbergh was the Philadelphia Flyers' goaltender and
Vezina Trophy winner who, while under the influence, crashed his Porche
into a wall in Voorhees, NJ at the height of his career.
Speaking of Voorhees, has anyone heard from Fata lately?
JP
Bob Champ
who was struck by a car as he was walking along the side of a road.
Some say that he deliberately walked into the path of the car; others
say it was an accident.
I also believe that writer John Gardner, author of _The Sunlight
Dialogues_ and _Grendel_, died in a motorcycle crash.
Richard Belcher
>
> "C40" <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote in message
> news:3D9D2E1A...@pgdwest.net...
> > At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> > in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> > doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
Brandon De Wilde - the kid in Shane.
Mack Twamley
Claudia Jennings, Playmate, in a head on on PCH (Pacific Coast Hiway)
Tim Lowrey
Elaine Hammerstein
Tom Mix
Gladys Brockwell
Florence LaBadie
Eric Campbell (villain in early Chaplin films)
Later stars:
Dorothy Dell
Judy Tyler (killed with husband, actor Gregory Lafayette)
Marjie Millar
Do these count?
James Agee (author, died of a heart attack in the backseat of a cab)
Harry Crosby & mistress Josephine Bigelow (murder-suicide pact in the
backseat of a cab)
Those who suggested Isadora Duncan may be interested to know that Duncan
lost two of her three children in a car-related mishap.
C40 wrote:
> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
Kathy O'Connell
Haven't seen her mentioned yet. Princess Summerfallwinterspring on "Howdy
Doody," and Elvis' co-star in "Jailhouse Rock."
>
Loki
wrote:
>Those who suggested Isadora Duncan may be interested to know that Duncan
>lost two of her three children in a car-related mishap.
Didn't Roy Orbison also lose a wife and some kids in a car wreck?
Loki
Fauxorb
>
>
>Loki
Half right with an asterisk. Roy's first wife, Claudette, (of the Everly
Brothers song) was broadsided and killed by a pick-up truck while motorcycling
in 1966. About a year and a half later, two of Roy's three sons were killed in
a house fire while he was on tour in England.
In Dreams,
Brian
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> In article <39mspuk6n4368mlmh...@4ax.com>,
>
> -TGS
ce損eb斟i暗y Pronunciation Key (s-lbr-t)
n. pl. ce損eb斟i暗ies
1. famous person.
2. Renown; fame.
1: n: a widely known person.
2: the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
The definition of the word "celebrity" seems to give the interpretation a
vary wide birth.
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Didn't a son drown in their swimming pool?
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> Don't forget Dottie West.
She came to mind right away...but somebody else had already mentioned
her.
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Corby Gilmore
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:49:37 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
> <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>>In article <3D9D2E1A...@pgdwest.net>, C40 <cg...@pgdwest.net>
>>>wrote:
>>
>>>> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>>>> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>>>> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>>>
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>It's extending your definition a bit, but how about giving Isadora Duncan
>>at least an honrable mention?
>
> Or ... how about Jim Reeves - in a car?
Close, but no cookie. Country music legend Jim Reeves died in 1964 in a
plane crash.
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co...@ncf.ca
Corby Gilmore
>>From: C40
>
>>At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>>in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>>doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>
>>Grace Kelly
>>Billy Martin (Baseball Manager)
>>Jessica Savitch (NBC Anchor)
>>James Dean
>>Jayne Mansfield
>>Johnny Horton ("Battle of New Orleans")
>>Tom Mix (Movie Actor in 1930s)
>>Marc Bolan (T-Rex, Bang-a-gong )
>>Princess Diana (obviously)
>>Harry Chapin (Singer-songwriter, Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle)
>>
>>
>
> Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
> Drazen Petrovic (NBA Star)
> Derrick Thomas (Kansas City Chiefs)
> Dottie West (Country Singer)
> Steve Prefontaine (Runner)
> Moondog Lonnie Mayne (Pro Wrestler)
> Adrian Adonis (Pro Wrestler)
> "Junkyard Dog" Sylvester Ritter (Pro Wrestler)
> Isadora Duncan
> Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)
> Bessie Smith
> Jackson Pollock (painter)
> Albert Camus
Percy Kilbride (actor, Ma & Pa Kettle films)
Herb Shriner (50's comedian)
Jack Anglin (country singer of 50s/60s; died en route to Patsy Cline
funeral)
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co...@ncf.ca
Corby Gilmore
> How about three Britishers..
>
> Desmond Llewellyn (Q in the James Bond series)
>
> Ian Bannen
>
> Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw died of a heart attack on August 28, 1978. To quote from his
NY Times obit:
"The police in County Mayo [western Ireland] said Shaw had been driving
to his home village of Tourmakeady, when he said he felt sick. He stopped
the car and got out but had walked only a few steps before collapsing. He
was rushed 15 miles to the hospital in Castebar but died before reaching it."
--
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co...@ncf.ca
Michael Rhodes
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Gottfriend von Cramm, tennis star.
Roy Campbell, South African poet.
Ian Bannen, Scots-born actor.
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MadCow57
I won't read it. I have my own ideas about what happened next, and that's the
way it should be. To each reader his/her own, IMO.
MadCow57
MadCow57
> *in* the car wreck:
>>The guy who mowed down Stephen King.
Volfie (oh, sure, Stephen would have you believe otherwise, but, really..)<< --
Volfie
Living in my own little world as usual, I prefer to think of things like hexes
and voodoo curses for the guy who hit Stephen King.
the ultimate cynic
to brain dead as one can get while breathing after his motorcycle accident
( amongst other mishaps).
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> >> Motorcycle crashes count?
>
> Dwayne Allman
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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WarpTwelve
>
>
>Loki
His first wife, Claudette, fell from the back of his motorcycle in 1966,
according to the website at:
http://bobdylanbiography.8k.com/Roy_Orbison/roy_orbison_biography.htm
(I had actually heard a bit of a different story, but that's beside the point.)
Matthew Hubbard
>
> Damn! We gotta ban cars!
Come live on campus in Davis; we're on our way towards it.
MattH
James L. Neibaur
Dave Prater (Sam and Dave)
Bessie Smith (blues pioneer)
Razzle (Hanoi Rocks)
Leaping Larry Chene (pro wrestler)
Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Stiv Bators (Dead Boys)
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> KazamaSmokers wrote...
> > Pelle Lingbergh (sp?)
>
> Lindbergh. Per-Erik Lindbergh was the Philadelphia Flyers' goaltender and
> Vezina Trophy winner who, while under the influence, crashed his Porche
> into a wall in Voorhees, NJ at the height of his career.
Hence the joke about 20 years ago that the hip cocktail in Philly was
the Pelle Wallbanger.
DeeEss57
>in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>doubt a lot more.
Malik Sealy, basketball player with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Killed by a
drunk driver on the way home from Kevin Garnett's birthday party.
DES
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Kent
(business tycoon?) Simon Bolt on the TV series "Sisters" died in a
motorcycle wreck in or near London.
Kent
"Kent" <ke...@nospam.dead-or-alive.org> wrote in message
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> In the category of motorcycle wrecks, actor Mark Frankel, who played
> (business tycoon?) Simon Bolt on the TV series "Sisters" died in a
> motorcycle wreck in or near London.
>
One more motorcycle statistic - Pete Conrad, commander of the Apollo 12 moon
landing mission and the third man to walk on the moon, died as the result of
a motorcycle accident.
Kent
Iceman
wrote:
>
>"C40" <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote in message
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>> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
>> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
>> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>>
>
>Nathanael West (writer) with wife Eileen McKenney (the Eileen of My Sister
>Eileen)
That was possibly a suicide. West had been depressed for a few days.
Brad Ferguson
<fau...@aol.com> wrote:
If we're talking families, Sen. Joseph Biden's first wife Neilia and
their daughter were killed in a car wreck in December 1972, a month
after Biden was first elected to the Senate.
The Kentucky Wizard
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Isn't he on wife #3 or #4 now? His hair plugs have outlasted his marriages
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Tim Horton (NHL all-star for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins,
New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres) killed when his Pantera his a bridge
abuttment on the Queen Elizabeth Way while driving from Toronto back to his
home in Buffalo.
I believe that Steve Chiasson (NHL player with Detroit Red Wings and
Carolina Hurricanes) also died in a car crash.
Finally didn't Pittsburgh Penguins rookie Michel Briere (early 1970s) aldo
die in the off season in a car crash?
Al Navis
"C40" <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote in message
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> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
Michael Rhodes
29 August, 1935.
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Mike Baker
windshield and hit him in the head?
mike
"Erik L." wrote:
> Director Alan Pakula
>
> The 2002 American League East Division Champion New York Yankees
>
> Erik L.
Bill Schenley
> Timberwolves. Killed by a drunk driver on the way home
> from Kevin Garnett's birthday party.
Bobby Phills of the Charlotte Hornets was killed while
racing with his teammate, David Wesley, in January of
2000.
.
Bill Schenley
> early '70s from complications related to injuries suffered in
> the same crash)
Only if you consider his alcoholism as a result of the crash.
Vincent died because of his ulcers, in 1971 ... Eleven years after
the crash that killed Eddie Cochran.
Gene Vincent's last words:
"If I get through this, I'm going to be a better man."
Bill Schenley
>
> Clifford Brown
> Eddie Costa
> Richie Powell
> Scott Lofaro
> Dave Lambert
Baseball players killed in car accidents:
Mike Darr
Bob Moose
Mike Miley
Germany Smith
Chico Ruiz
Ken Robinson
Frankie Frisch
Rufino Linares
Danny Frisella (dune buggy)
Jose Oliva
Eddie Solomon
Mike Sharperson
Jim Brewer
Bob Miller
Billy Martin
Aurelio Lopez
Andjuar Cedeno
Miguel del Toro
Tim Layana
* Brian Cole (Met prospect)
And ... in 1914 ... Henry Reitz became the first MLB player to
be killed in an auto accident.
WarpTwelve
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, C40 <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote:
> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
The only one I can think of who hasn't been covered in this thread so
far is Seymour Cray.
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Brad Ferguson
<INVALID...@example.com> wrote:
> In the previous article, C40 <cg...@pgdwest.net> wrote:
> > At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> > in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> > doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
> The only one I can think of who hasn't been covered in this thread so
> far is Seymour Cray.
Robert Rodale died in a taxi accident in Moscow in 1990. (His father,
J.I. Rodale, died during a taping of Dick Cavett's talk show in 1971.)
Rodale Publications does natural-food and "wellness" stuff.
LandonEx
>Has anyone mentioned James Dean?
As well as the German mechanic, Rolf Wuetherich, who survived the crash that
killed Dean.
Wuetherich, age 29 at the time of the 1955 crash, was accompanying James Dean
in Dean's Porsche Spyder on 09-30-55 and was thrown from the sports car in the
collision with the other motorist (a student from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo).
Gravely injured, Wuetherich eventually recovered from his injuries and returned
to his native Germany.
Thirty-six years later, in 1991, after a few drinks one evening at his local
pub, Wuetherich got into his car (a Honda, IIRC) and headed for home. On the
outskirts of his village, his speeding car skidded on the rain-slickened
roadway, veered off the road, and hit a tree (or maybe it was a telephone
pole). Wuetherich was killed in the crash.
His "celebrity" status was garnered from being the one who survived in the
"James Dean death car," as well as the one who heard Dean's very last words, as
the two observed the oncoming Ford begin to make its turn in front of them;
something along the lines of, "Surely that guy sees us?"
=L=
Elaine Parrish
My memory is a lot sketchy, but didn't Jan of the singing group Jan and
Dean die in a car wreck?
Elaine
rrf (aka Makule Bob)
wrote:
>
>
>My memory is a lot sketchy, but didn't Jan of the singing group Jan and
>Dean die in a car wreck?
>
>Elaine
>
No. But he was badly injured. b
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the two observed the oncoming Ford begin to make its turn in front of them;
That's what I say almost every day at the intersection of O'Donnell and Newkirk
in Baltimore as cars move across the double yellow line into an oncoming lane
in order to, as the offending driver told me yesterday, "I'm making a left."
Over the past three or four years, I've called 311, the road-painting people,
the mayor's office, and the Southeastern District police station - all to no
avail. However, I'm confident that something will be done as soon as a school
bus gets hit.
Tim Lowrey
Actress June Preisser and her teenage son were killed in a car accident
in Boca Raton, Florida in 1984.
A car accident killed the father of child-actor Jackie Coogan, as well
as another child-actor, Junior Durkin. This calamity precipitated
Jackie's mother's remarriage and their combined bilking of Jackie
Coogan's estate.
C40 wrote:
> At work we were discussing famous people who have been killed
> in car crashes ONLY. Here are a few we came up with, there are no
> doubt a lot more. And FWIW, race car drivers don't count.
>
theresa
Deadman's Curve?
rrf (aka Makule Bob)
It would have been more fitting. But if memory serves me right, it was
in an accident involving a train. I think it may have been while
making a film or promo shots or? Can't remember whether it was Jan
(Barry?) or Dean (Torrance?). But one of them fell while the train was
moving and sustained head injuries that put the end to his singing
career.
But they sure did throw some incredible parties at their recording
studio cum pad in the Pacific Palisades (not far from 'Deadman's
Curve' during the early days. b
Bill Schenley
> > > > singing group Jan and Dean die in a car wreck?
> > > No. But he was badly injured. b
> > Deadman's Curve?
>
> It would have been more fitting. But if memory serves me
> right, it was in an accident involving a train. I think it may
> have been while making a film or promo shots or? Can't
> remember whether it was Jan (Barry?) or Dean (Torrance?).
> But one of them fell while the train was moving and
> sustained head injuries that put the end to his singing
> career.
>
> But they sure did throw some incredible parties at their
> recording studio cum pad in the Pacific Palisades
> (not far from 'Deadman's Curve' during the early days.
Your memory is just a bit faulty ... on this one.
In 1966, Jan Berry drove his car into a parked truck in Beverly
Hills. He was in a coma for a few weeks ... maybe a month ...
He was partially paralyzed and his speech became slurred.
Jan Berry and Dean Torrance were friends since high school,
where they were football teammates. Dean Torrance gets
big-time credit for sticking with his friend through the worst
of times.
Sometime in the 1970s ... maybe early 80s ... Jan and Dean
began to tour again.
Kathi
<rrfe...@earthsea.co.enzed> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 03:01:48 GMT, theresa <emil...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>"rrf (aka Makule Bob)" wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:27:15 -0500, Elaine Parrish <e...@ebicom.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >My memory is a lot sketchy, but didn't Jan of the singing group Jan and
>>> >Dean die in a car wreck?
>>> >
>>> >Elaine
>>> >
>>> No. But he was badly injured. b
>>>
>>>
>>Deadman's Curve?
>
>It would have been more fitting. But if memory serves me right, it was
>in an accident involving a train. I think it may have been while
>making a film or promo shots or? Can't remember whether it was Jan
>(Barry?) or Dean (Torrance?). But one of them fell while the train was
>moving and sustained head injuries that put the end to his singing
>career.
>
>But they sure did throw some incredible parties at their recording
>studio cum pad in the Pacific Palisades (not far from 'Deadman's
>Curve' during the early days.
From
http://www.jananddean.com/bio.html
On April 12, 1966 it all changed. William Jan Berry at the age of 25,
at the top of his game, crashed his new Stingray into the back of a
parked truck on a side street in Beverly Hills.
The Paramedics that arrived on the scene thought he was dead. They
checked his vital signs and found he was still alive but just barely.
They cut him out of the car and rushed him to the near by UCLA
Hospital where he underwent numerous major brain surgeries. He was in
a deep coma for weeks, the doctors were not very optimistic at all
about the outcome.
Like the fighter he is, Jan Berry beat the odds. He emerged out of the
coma unable to walk or talk but he pushed himself hard and with the
help of his parents, friends and the many talented doctors and
therapists, he has made a remarkable recovery. He is still partially
paralyzed on his right side, and he still has trouble with putting
some words and thoughts together, but he is able to sing relatively
well. The part of the brain where music comes from was not that badly
damaged.
It has been a very long process and it did take 7 years before Jan &
Dean could even attempt to sing again on stage, and another 5 years
before they were ready to try a official comeback.
*****
Hope that was informative for anyone who was interested.
Kathi
LandonEx
>My memory is a lot sketchy, but didn't Jan of the singing group Jan and
>Dean die in a car wreck?
>
>Elaine
He was severely injured in one (1966?), but Jan survived. He still has some
lingering paralysis, IIRC.
=L=
Bill Schenley
Monzon died in 1995 while driving back to the prison in
Argentina he was furloughed from. He was serving an eleven
year sentence for killing his girlfriend and the mother of his
son, Alicia Muniz. Monzon threw her off a second-story
balcony
Jim Beaver
"Mike Baker" <mik...@pacifier.com> wrote in message
news:3DA11268...@pacifier.com...
> Wasn't Alan Pakula killed by a metal pipe that that came through his
> windshield and hit him in the head?
Yes.
Here's another 208 celebs who died in car wrecks:
Steve Allen (after-effects of an accident)
Duane Allman (motorcycle)
Vic Ames (of the Ames Brothers)
Warren Ashe (character actor)
Edmond Audran (French actor-dancer)
Chuck Baldra (B-Western actor)
Les Bates (B-Western actor)
Jean Besre' (Canadian actor)
J. Stuart Blackton (silent film director/producer/writer/actor)
Pierre Blaise (Lucien of "Lacombe, Lucien")
Marc Bolan (musician)
Elmer Booth (silent actor)
Pat Brady (Roy Rogers's sidekick)
Edgar Brazil (cinematographer)
Gary Breckner (actor/radio announcer)
Lino Brocka (Filipino director)
Alf Brustellin (German director)
Hugh & John Buckler (father-&-son actors of the 1930s; died in same
accident)
Fred Buscaglione (Italian songwriter/actor)
Charles Butterworth (character actor)
Leonid Bykov (Russian actor/director)
John 'Bob' Cason (B-Western actor/stuntman)
Ray Cawley (of Bill Haley and the Comets)
Bonar Colleano
Jack Coogan Sr. (Jackie's father; actor/writer/producer)
Curt Dawson (soap opera star)
Alfredo De Laurentiis (producer)
Roger Delgado (British character actor)
Ted Demers (soap opera star)
Kazimierz Deyna (soccer player/actor)
Steve Drake (B-Western actor)
Tom Dugan (extremely prolific character actor)
Junior Durkin (child actor)
Yevgeni Dvorzhetsky (Russian actor)
B. Reeves Eason Jr. (7-year-old actor son of the director)
Eric Emerson (musician/actor in Warhol films)
Falco (musician)
Richard Farina (writer)
Harry Fisher Jr. (silent actor)
Norman Forbes (British theatre and silent film actor)
Mark Frankel (British actor)
Marcelo Fromer (Brazilian musician)
Sheng Fu (Hong Kong actor)
Don Garner/Gardner (actor/TV Host)
Maine 'Bud' Geary (B-Western actor)
Adrian Ghio (Argentinian actor)
Keith Godchaux (of The Grateful Dead)
Albert Gran (silent actor)
Nils T. Granlund (vaudevillian)
Earl Grant (musician/composer)
Earle W. Graser (radio Lone Ranger)
Kurt Großkurth (German actor)
Ray Hallor (silent actor)
Shorty Hamilton (silent Western actor)
Einar Hanson (Swedish silent actor)
Oliver Hassencamp (German actor/writer)
Richard 'Dick' Hatton (B-Western actor/director/writer)
Richard Hayward (Irish actor/writer)
Guy Hedlund (silent actor)
Enrique Herreros (Spanish actor/writer/director)
Ross Hill (actor; son of Italian star Terence Hill)
Carlo Hinterman (Italian actor)
Boothe Howard (character actor)
Leo Ilial (French actor)
Ralph Ince (writer/producer/director/actor)
Roberto Infascelli (Italian writer/producer)
George Ingleton (silent actor)
Warren Jackson (character actor)
Paul Jarrico (screenwriter)
Jaromil Jires (Czech writer/director)
Remzi Jöntürk (Turkish writer/director)
Hal Kemp (band leader)
Charles Kemper (character actor)
Arnold Kent (silent actor)
Prince Aly Khan
Percy Kilbride
Manart Kippen (character actor)
Willy A. Kleinau (German character actor)
Wladyslaw Komar (Olympic gold medalist/actor)
Ernie Kovacs
Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin (Our Gang member)
Meade 'Lux' Lewis (musician)
Louis Lomax (actor/writer/commentator)
Jack Long (actor/stuntman)
Deacon Lunchbox (poet/performance artist)
George MacFarlane (character actor)
Paul Mace (character actor)
Charles Mack (of Mack and Moran)
Charles Emmett Mack (actor)
Theodore Marcuse (character actor)
Ferdinand Marian (German actor)
John Marsh (Kansas dentist who "starred" in This Is Cinerama!)
Gonzalo Martínez Ortega (Mexican director/writer/actor)
Otto Matieson (character actor--Joel Cairo in the 1931 Maltese Falcon)
Walter McGinn (character actor)
Mike McKeever (of the McKeever Twins)
Solomon Mikhoels (Russian actor)
Chef Joseph Milani (chef/actor)
Tom Mix
Carlos Monzón (boxer/actor)
Fred Moore (animator)
Herbert Mundin (character actor)
Shankar Nag (Indian director)
Luís Sérgio Person (Brazilian writer/director)
Bobby Phills (basketball player)
Tom Pittman (actor)
Bruno Pradal (French actor)
Hugh Prosser (B-Western and serial actor)
Romano Puppo (Italian actor/stuntman)
Perdigão Queiroga (Portugese writer/director)
Wolfgang Reitherman (Disney director/animator)
Virgilio Riento (Italian actor)
Georges Rigaud (prolific European actor)
Franklyn Ritchie (silent actor)
Jilly Rizzo (restaurateur)
Skeeter Bill Robbins (silent Western actor)
Richard Rober (actor)
William Roerick (actor)
George Rose (stage and film actor)
Jerry Rubin (political activist)
Tara Römer (French actor)
Keiji Sada (Japanese actor)
Wilfried Seyferth (German actor)
Harold Shaw (silent film director/actor)
Herb Shriner (humorist)
Trinidad Silva (actor)
Alf Sjöberg (Swedish director/writer)
Ezra Stone (actor/director)
Otello Toso (Italian actor)
Romolo Valli (Italian actor)
Norman Vaughan (British performer/writer)
Ernesto Vilches (Spanish actor/writer/director)
Fernando Wagner (Mexican actor/director)
Huey White (actor)
Dries Wieme (Dutch actor)
Millard K. Wilson (prolific silent film actor)
Gustav Winckler (Danish musician/composer)
Wen Wright (B-Western actor)
Collier Young (writer/producer)
Junie Astor (French actress)
Pascale Audret (French actress)
Jill Banner (actress)
Nicole Berger (French actress)
Carmen Boni (French actress)
Maya Bulgakova (Russian actress)
Marguerite Clayton (silent actress)
Dorothy Dell (Miss America [1930]/actress)
Charla Doherty (actress)
Françoise Dorléac (French actress)
Peggy Feury (actress/acting teacher)
Helen Flint (actress)
Elinor Flynn (actress)
Jody Gilbert (actress)
Vida Hope (British actress)
Claudia Jennings (actress/Playboy Playmate)
Grace Kelly
Florence La Badie (silent actress)
Belinda Lee (actress)
Bertha Lewis (singer)
Krysti Lynn (porn actress)
Dorothy Mackaye (playwright)
Mary Mackenzie (British actress)
Jayne Mansfield
Paola Mori (actress-wife of Orson Welles)
June Preisser (actress)
Vivian Rich (actress)
Susan Shaw (actress)
Gene Stratton-Porter (novelist)
Kiwako Taichi (Japanese actress)
Judy Tyler (actress)
Joan Valerie/Helen Valkis (actress)
Grethe Weiser (prolific German actress)
Dottie West (country singer)
Marjorie White (actress)
Lucien Ballard (cinematographer)
Ernest Haller (cinematographer)
Andrezj Munk (Polish director)
E.Y. Harburg (composer/writer)
Jacqueline Audry (French director)
Alan Crosland (director)
Basil Dearden (writer/director)
Bob Horner (B-Western director/writer/producer)
Ken Loach (director)
F.W. Murnau (director)
Albert Camus (writer)
Johnny Horton (singer)
Buford Pusser (lawman)
Carlos Arruza (bullfighter/actor)
Larry Blyden (actor)
Bobby Buntrock (actor)(prob. suicide)
Brandon De Wilde (actor)
Thomas Gomez (actor)
Grant Richards (actor)
Earl Robinson (singer/composer)
Wally Vernon (actor)
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes (singer)
Linda Lovelace (porn actress)
Julien Duvivier (director)
Alexander Dubcek (Czech politico)
Hal Skelly (actor)
Carmencita Johnson (actress)
Kevin Coughlin (actor)
Ralph Lewis (silent actor)
Kay Campbell (soap opera actress)
Peter Revson (race driver)
Mike Spence (race driver)
Not an exhaustive list, but it pretty much includes anyone I ever heard of,
and a number I hadn't heard of but should have.
Loki
<jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
No one had mentioned Clarence White, one of the greatest flat picking
guitarists of all time. Played with the Kentucky Colonels (Bluegrass
band) and the Byrds for a couple of years. He was killed by a hit and
run driver.
Loki
rrf (aka Makule Bob)
safer for a celebrity to fly, walk, swim, take a train or stay at
home. bob
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:15:30 GMT, "Jim Beaver"
<jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
The Kentucky Wizard
"Loki" <cubby...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:15:30 GMT, "Jim Beaver"
> <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> No one had mentioned Clarence White, one of the greatest flat picking
> guitarists of all time. Played with the Kentucky Colonels (Bluegrass
> band) and the Byrds for a couple of years. He was killed by a hit and
> run driver.
>
>
>
Are you sure it wasn't his first attempt to install indoor plumbing could
have exploded in his face and killed him?
--
The Wiz.....
Loki
<kentuckywizardNOS...@hotmail.com> wrote:
One would think that your obsession with toilets bordered on fanatical
Wiz, until they took your nick name into consideration.
Loki
The Kentucky Wizard
Oh hell, please stop Loki, you are cracking me up! Oh my God, time for
another breathing treatment! No wonder there are over 2,000 comedians out of
work, you have taken up all of the spotlight. Oh hell, my sides are hurting
sooooo bad from all the laughing,,, oh shit,,, oh........
--
The Wiz.....
吵o吩oo
>
> Pat Brady (Roy Rogers's sidekick)
I hope it didn't happen in Nelly Belle.
> Percy Kilbride (Pa Kettle)
I'll bet he was driving.
> Not an exhaustive list, but it pretty much includes anyone I ever
> heard of, and a number I hadn't heard of but should have.
This list is a good reason to *take the train*.
--
吵o吩oo
AKA
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Percy Kilbride was hit by a car near his home. I don't think this qualifies
as a car wreck.
Jim Beaver
"AKA" <fal...@das.com> wrote in message
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>
> "吵o吩oo" <snos...@att.net> wrote in message
> news:%d0t9.17386$Mb3.5...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > Jim Beaver wrote:
> > >
> > > Pat Brady (Roy Rogers's sidekick)
> >
> > I hope it didn't happen in Nelly Belle.
> >
> > > Percy Kilbride (Pa Kettle)
> >
> > I'll bet he was driving.
> >
> > > Not an exhaustive list, but it pretty much includes anyone I ever
> > > heard of, and a number I hadn't heard of but should have.
> >
> > This list is a good reason to *take the train*.
> > --
>
>
> Percy Kilbride was hit by a car near his home. I don't think this
qualifies
> as a car wreck.
So if he'd been encased in metal with an engine, it would qualify, but if
the collision was between an automobile and his unprotected body, it
doesn't. Is that right?
Jim