Dead Man's Curve is an American nickname for a curve in a road that has claimed many lives because of numerous crashes.
A section of the 1915 Ridge Route in Lebec, California, abandoned when US 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over the Tejon Pass in order to make travel straighter and safer.
Dead Man's Curve on old U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico
Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland, Ohio
Warning sign for Cleveland's Dead Man's Curve
Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence. In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles later popula
Dead Man's Curve
…that has claimed many lives because of numerous crashes. 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…
Jan and Dean on the cover of Cash Box; August 3, 1963
The album cover to Pollution, designed by Torrence, won a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover in 1971.
Torrence and Berry in 1985