# Celebrity car crash deaths **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122 "2015-02-19T19:52:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/1 "2015-02-19T19:52:12Z")
Turns out I have a friend who wants a list. We’ve got a few recent or very well known ones, but there must be many more. No need to include race car driver dying in races. The starting list: Jane Mansfield James Dean Princess Di Paul Walker There must be dozens or hundreds more. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/2 "2015-02-19T19:56:00Z")
Steve Prefontaine. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/3 "2015-02-19T19:57:37Z")
Harry Chapin. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/4 "2015-02-19T19:59:17Z")
Grace Kelly ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/5 "2015-02-19T19:59:52Z")
Desmond Llewellyn. (aka Bond’s “Q”) Isadora Duncan? Died in a car, not necessarily from a crash. ---
**Author:** ![chiquitita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@chiquitita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiquitita)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/6 "2015-02-19T20:03:39Z")
Marc Bolan ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/7 "2015-02-19T20:07:48Z")
Duanne Allman- motorcycle Steve Allen ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/8 "2015-02-19T20:08:27Z")
News gal Jessica Savitch Korean War General Walton Walker. George Patton? Died from complications of a crash ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/9 "2015-02-19T20:09:51Z")
Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/10 "2015-02-19T20:14:55Z")
Lisa Lopes - “Left Eye” from the singing group TLC ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/11 "2015-02-19T20:16:33Z")
you prevented a pile-up. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/12 "2015-02-19T20:18:30Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). Well that’s no fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/13 "2015-02-19T20:21:35Z")
**Bob Simon** from “60 Minutes” was just recently killed in a car accident. Oh, and add **Sam Kinison** to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/14 "2015-02-19T20:23:04Z")
Some NHL players while still active: Pelle Lindbergh Dan Snyder Steve Chiasson ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/15 "2015-02-19T20:25:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). Wow. Yeah, that’s pretty good list. It even has my obscure NHLers on it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/16 "2015-02-19T20:26:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). More [here](http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Category:Car_Crashes). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/17 "2015-02-19T20:29:00Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). Well if you’re gonna cheat. Hmmmmmph. I did find some surprises on there, however. Pierre Curie? I would have thought he’d died of some disease related to his work, as Marie did. Buford T. Pusser? Isn’t that the sheriff guy? You mean, he didn’t die in a shoot out? And, ironically, car designer Bugatti. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/18 "2015-02-19T21:26:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hate to end this but I don’t think we can come up with a better list than [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_in_road_accidents). These are people who died in “road accidents”, and early on I see someone who was killed by a “horse drawn vehicle”. ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/19 "2015-02-19T21:51:45Z")
Thuy Trang, the first yellow power ranger, was killed in a car crash. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122/20 "2015-02-19T22:44:55Z")
They also list pedestrians on that wiki page, but don’t have 1970s Detroit Tigers’ third basemen [Aurelio Rodríguez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelio_Rodr%C3%ADguez). > [@](#): > > On September 23, 2000, Rodriguez was visiting Detroit from his home in Mexico. While he was walking with an unidentified woman on Detroit’s southwest side at 2:00 p.m., a car jumped the curb and ran over him. The woman driver of the car was driving with a suspended license and had been ordered not to drive due to a prior brain aneurysm; she was charged with felony manslaughter but received only probation. Rodriguez, who had to be pulled from under the car, was 52 at the time of his death. Thousands attended his funeral in Mexico, including the president of that country, Ernesto Zedillo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-car-crash-deaths/713122.md?page=2)