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A curve on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles memorialized in the hit song "Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean.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.
"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 39 in Canada . [ 3 ]
The Curve is a 1998 American thriller film starring Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell and Michael Vartan, [1] which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival under its original title, Dead Man's Curve. [2] It draws on the urban legend that a student will receive an A letter grade should their roommate commit suicide (pass by catastrophe).
On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident on Whittier Drive, just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Beverly Hills, California, two years after the song had become a hit. He was en route to a business meeting when he crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection ...
The FAA states "The height–velocity diagram or H/V curve is a graph charting the safe/unsafe flight profiles relevant to a specific helicopter. As operation outside the safe area of the chart can be fatal in the event of a power or transmission failure it is sometimes referred to as the dead man's curve ."
Between 2013 and 2023, Dead Man’s Curve saw more than 3,000 collisions, 52 deaths, and 92 serious injuries, according to records presented in four separate lawsuits against the state of ...
Deadman's Curve is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film based on the musical careers of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence. The film was developed from a 1974 article published in Rolling Stone by Paul Morantz , who also helped write the screenplay .
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.