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The song's lyrics place the location of the "Dead Man's Curve" accident at the curve on westbound Sunset Boulevard just west of Doheny Drive in West Hollywood. Voice actor Mel Blanc was severely injured while driving here in 1961, and later sued the City of Los Angeles, prompting a reconstruction of the road.
Tchester.org: Angeles Crest Highway (SR—2) Road Guide; Cycling on Angeles Crest Highway; Geocities page on Angeles Crest Highway (Archived) 2009-10-25). Angeles Crest Highway news: Los Angeles Times—"Man About Town" column: "Rough and humble on the Angeles Crest Highway" March 2006 Storm Damage Photos; Wikinews: Story on JPL van accident
The road was bypassed by the three-lane Ridge Route Alternate, then U.S. Route 99 (US 99), to handle increased traffic and remove curves; the Alternate in Los Angeles County was completed in 1933, and Kern County line to Grapevine in 1936.
A section of the highway known as "Dead Man's Curve," was the "scene of many accidents on the narrow old road," [17] and in July 1932 it took the life of Jack Klieby, 33, who deliberately drove his truck, transporting gasoline, off the roadway to avoid hitting oncoming automobiles. He died when the truck burst into flames.
The families of four sorority sisters struck and killed on California’s Pacific Coast Highway are suing the state and local governments over a notorious death trap locals call “Dead Man’s...
This dataset represents natural color, leaf-off, 1 foot high-accuracy orthorectified aerial imagery, acquired by the Los Angeles Regional Imagery Consortium (LAR-IAC) in winter 2010/2011, and made public with the partnership of the US Geological Survey (USGS).
SR 22 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, [2] and is part of the National Highway System, [3] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration. [4] SR 22 from I-405 to SR 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway, as named by the State ...
Signs along the Sunset Strip Sunset Blvd at the West Gate of Bel Air Emerson College Los Angeles Center at 5960 Sunset Blvd. Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, United States, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles.