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James Dean accident site 1955 Chalome California Rt 41 amp 46 Intersect
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The site of James Dean's accident in Chalome CA on 9/30/1955 which took his life. Still visited and memorial kept to his day, which was 64 years later at the time I filmed it, on October 12, 2019. He was driving from Bakersfield to Salinas to race the Porsche when he crashed with a Ford Tudor driven by a college student named Donald Turnupseed. Dean died almost instantly, his passenger and the Turnupseed both survived. • James Dean's passenger died in a separate car accident in 1981. Donald Turnupseed who lived in and remained in nearby Tulare refused to talk about the accident afterward, he later started an electrical company afterward and was pretty successful. He also married and had a family, but he died of cancer in July of 1995, just shy of 40 years after the accident. I am also the original author of his find a grave page, which I created in 2005 as the 50th anniversary of the crash was approaching. • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1... • I drive to this site cold turkey, meaning I had never been to the site before, and I hadn't rehearsed anything beforehand. I preferred it that way. I live in NY and have travelled to CA many times. I had always intended to visit the site but it is in an out of the way location, several hours away from any of the nearest major cities. I was in LA and was suddenly invited to an event in SF and decided to drive instead of fly as I already had a rental car and this would be the perfect opportunity to pass through. I relied on significant research I found online to pinpoint the location. • The roads have been modified significantly since the crash so I could not exactly reconstruct the crash. Where you see the sign and where I parked the car was actually where the intersection of Routes 46 41 connected back in 1955. Turnupseeds car T-boned James Dean's Porsche and the impact, pushed the car into the fence where memorial you see marks the spot where James Dean's Porsche came to rest. There has since been major construction which included expanding Route 41 in a way where the two roads can pass through each other without actually having to intersect or stop. • I filmed it with a hand held camera as I was driving so for the first minute or so. I started filming about three miles away to get a sense of the route JD took. I had rested it on the dashboard while driving and quickly realized I was filming mostly dashboard, then I picked up the camera with my right hand and used that to film and drove the remainder of the way using only my left hand. I could've mounted my phone to the glass and filmed that way but I opted to use that for GPS instead (as you can probably tell)
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