Top 10 Celebrity Death Cars

"I have always been a very spiritual woman. I think we all have different heavens. Mine will probably be me reliving my life over."
- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

"Not long after he entered the Long Island Expressway, [Chapin] suffered a heart attack at the Jericho Turnpike. He slowed his blue Volkwagen Rabbit to fifteen mph and attempted to pull off the expressway from the fast lane. With emergency blinkers on, he swerved to the right, only to sideswipe another car. As he attempted again to turn off, he was struck from behind by a large tractor-trailer rig that crushed the back end of his car."
—Scott Stanton, The Tombstone Tourist, 2003

"On 1st January, 1953, Hank Williams, the country and western star whose career burnt brilliantly for a brief four years before being doused by the vast quantities of alcohol he consumed, died in the back of a car while being driven to a show by an off-duty taxi driver. Williams' death from heart failure was brought on by drink and the drugs he obtained illegally from a quack doctor."
—Gary Herman, Rock 'n' Roll Babylon, 2002

"You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones."
—Dale Earnhardt

"I'd rather die like a man
Than live like a coward . . ."
—"Only God Can Judge Me" lyrics

"I always believed the press would kill her in the end."
—Earl Charles Spencer

". . . we might have ridden into an ambush."
—JFK aide David Powers

"[T]he two were killed at a roadblock ambush near Gibland, Louisiana. A well-armed posse led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer pumped 187 shells, such was their fierce legend, into Bonnie and Clyde, killing them instantly. Clyde had been driving in his socks and Bonnie had a sandwich in her mouth."
—Jay Robert Nash, Bloodletters and Badmen, 1973

Mansfield's car plowed underneath a slow-moving tractor-trailer; not decapitated as commonly believed (however the top of her head was ripped off). Death certificate indicated a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain." At one time, Mansfield's "Death Car" could be viewed by morbid curiosity seekers at the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in St. Augustine, Florida.

"That guy up there's gotta stop; he'll see us."
—last words, James Dean, September 30, 1955

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