April 12, 1966 –
While on his way to a business meeting, Jan Berry, one half of the rock and roll duo Jan and Dean, crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills, receiving severe head injuries and falling into a month long coma.
Strangely, the automobile accident was just a short distance from Dead Man’s Curve in Los Angeles, California, two years after the song had become a hit.
The Haus of Dcaligari 