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there's a sharp turn up ahead. Our first urban legend that Jan Berry of Jan and Dean had a near fatal accident on the same road

that they had sung about earlier in their hit, Dead Man's Curve.

That would be a pretty weird and downright scary coincidence, would it not?

Back in the 60s, when the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were turning out surfing and car racing hits like jiffy pop,

there were more than a few dangerous curves, but one of the

baddest is the corner of Sunset Boulevard near the Bel Air Estates, just north of UCLA's

Drake Stadium. It's all downhill if you're headed east, and when you get to the bottom, you find

you need to bank sharply to the left or crash into a wall of trees. The most renowned victim

of Los Angeles's infamous curve was Mel Blank, famous as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and hundreds of other cartoon characters.

In January 1961, Blank was driving a sports car eastbound on Sunset

Boulevard one evening around 930 p.m. and at Dead Man's Curve, he collided

head on with another car.

Blank was pride from the wreckage unconscious,

having suffered head injuries, a broken pelvis,

and two broken legs.

He barely escaped death and spent weeks in a coma. Just a few days after a

blank accident, Los Angeles Board of Public Works approved making changes to

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