[sleestac82]

I've driven that spot a lot. Donald Turnipseed, a Tulare native was driving home from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Dean was speeding west bound into the setting sun...Turnipseed was turning left and turned in front of Dean sending them both into the north corner of the streets. Pic 1 is pic three cropped and reversed for some reason. Thanks for posting! 'm from Tulare and know a grandson of Turnipseed that's my age (40). James Dean was a mesmerizing actor gone way too early.

[Bletch]

What about James Deen ? He's still around.

[SavageGlow]

Originally Posted by ZombieGreco ↗

Yep. I'd like the people who are disagreeing with me to name one woman he fucked. The media came out with it after his death. No one was to know when he was alive because it would have ruined his image.

He had a longterm gf he was planning to marry

[SavageGlow]

From wikipedia

According to a story in the October 1, 2005, edition of the Los Angeles Times,[17] California Highway Patrol Captain Ernest Tripke and his partner, Corporal Ronald Nelson, had been finishing a coffee break in Paso Robles when they were called to the scene of the accident at the Route 466/41 junction. Before Officers Tripke and Nelson arrived, James Dean had been extricated from the Spyder's mangled cockpit, his left foot having been crushed between the clutch and brake pedal. Dean was severely injured as he took the brunt of the crash, with a broken neck and several internal and external injuries. Nelson witnessed an unconscious and dying Dean being placed into an ambulance, and a barely conscious Wütherich, who had been thrown from the Spyder, lying on the shoulder of the road next to the wrecked Porsche. Dean and Wütherich were taken in the same ambulance to the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, 28 miles (45 km) away. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival at 6:20pm by the attending emergency room physician, Robert Bossert.[18] Warren Beath wrote that Dean had died in the arms of his friend, Bill Hickman.[1

So, most likely, that was the passenger.

[Torious]

I'm not even sure it's anyone at all!
Just a sort of ...illusion, a part of the car and some shadow, which sort of looks like a face from a distance...?

[RockDesk]

I've always thought it was part of the recovery team checking something. To me he's holding himself up on his elbows and in a conversation with the men standing. In the other picture taken shortly before or after this, the head is in a different position.

[collins7]

man that car looks like a crushed soda can from the side

[OxVortex]

He's a fuckin' retard, no sympathy for that.

[Skillerious]

I know this is an old thread but if it wasnt noted, the man pictured is Deans mechanic friend Rudolf Karl Wütherich. and from this picture he is turning his head talking to his rescuers. He died in 1981 in another car crash.

[ElectricStank666]

I wonder where the rest of that Spider is ?