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Curve in a road that has claimed lives because of numerous crashes

This article is about dangerous sections of roads. For other uses, seeDead Man's Curve (disambiguation).

A section of the 1915Ridge Route inLebec, California, abandoned when US 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over theTejon Pass in order to make travel straighter and safer.

Dead Man's Curve on oldU.S. Route 66 in New Mexico

Dead Man's Curve is an American nickname for a curve in a road that has claimed many lives because of numerous crashes.^[1]^[2]

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A curve onSunset Boulevard inLos Angeles memorialized in the hit song "Dead Man's Curve" byJan 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 Hollywood. Voice actorMel Blanc was severely injured while driving here in 1961, and later sued the City of Los Angeles, prompting a reconstruction of the road. However, the earlier lyrics suggest the long straight starting at "Sunset and Vine" and going past "LaBrea, Schwab's (Pharmacy), and Crescent Heights" (Blvd) would suggest the first curve hit (at a high speed) would be the one at Marmont Lane, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) before Doheny.^{[original research?]} (As it is, the "drag" from Vine to Marmont is also 2.4 miles, but entirely straight.)
A series of curves in the 21600 block ofPacific Coast Highway just east of Carbon Canyon Road inMalibu, California, which has been noted as hazardous.^[3]
A sharp turn on eastboundInterstate 70 just west of exit 259 nearMorrison, Colorado that is preceded by a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of a 6.5% grade downslope, which has been the site of numerous fatal runaway truck accidents.^[4]
BetweenAlbuquerque andTijeras,State Road 333 (previously known as U.S. Route 66) makes a sudden curve near theI-40 overpass. This stretch of highway has earned its name because of the rocky cliffs on the south side of the highway, and frequent deer traffic contributes to its hazardousness.^[5]
A curve onHistoric Route 66 atTowanda, Illinois.
InMarquette Township inMarquette County, Michigan, Dead Man's Curve referred to a curve onCounty Road 492 (46°31′54″N87°28′26″W / 46.5318°N 87.474°W /46.5318; -87.474), where the first state highway center line in the United States was painted when the road was part ofState Highway M-15.^[6]^[7]
Union Square, Manhattan had a long history of traffic congestion extending back to the 1890s, when trolley lines were first installed. Two parallel trolley lines made a double curve at the southwest corner of Broadway and Fourteenth Street. In spite of traffic wardens on duty, the trolleys regularly struck pedestrians crossing the tracks in the busy shopping district around the park.^[8] By 1930, the Fourteenth Street Association, a retail business association headed by its president, H. Prescott Beach, had successfully lobbied the New York transit authority to remove the above-ground rails, and move routes underground.^[9]
The name is applied to the nearly 90° turn onInterstate 90 near downtownCleveland, Ohio. Officially called the "Innerbelt Curve",^[10] it is where theCleveland Memorial Shoreway connects to theInnerbelt Freeway at a modifiedtrumpet interchange just south ofBurke Lakefront Airport.^[11] There have been proposals to improve it since the 1960s, soon after it opened;^[11]^[12] as of 2023^[update] a modification study is underway.^[13]
A dangerous curve onSouth Carolina Highway 9 about 10 miles (16 km) west ofChester, South Carolina, has been the site of several fatal crashes.^[14]
A curve on a section ofInterstate 76 nearConshohocken, Pennsylvania, known as the "Conshohocken Curve" by many people, has been the site of several fatal and nonfatal crashes.^[15]
Highway 101 inWashington, in betweenSequim andPort Angeles.

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^Allen, Irving Lewis (1995).The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-509265-1 – viaGoogle Books.A bend in any road that has a history of vehicular accidents always seems to be calledDead Man's Curve.
^Algar, Selim (October 8, 2012)."Police: 4 Killed in Gruesome Long Island Accident: Driver Only Had Learner's Permit".New York Post. RetrievedAugust 8, 2015.The site is so frequently the scene of horrific accidents, first responders call it 'Dead Man's Curve'.
^Garcia, Karen; Childs, Jeremy; Winton, Richard (October 30, 2023)."BMW driver accused of killing 4 Pepperdine students out on $4-million bond".Los Angeles Times. RetrievedNovember 28, 2023.
^Gathright, Alan (July 12, 2007)."Stretch of I-70 has deadly legacy".Rocky Mountain News. Archived fromthe original on July 14, 2007. RetrievedJuly 13, 2007.
^"New Mexicans move to make roads more wildlife-friendly". Hcn.org. August 2, 2004. RetrievedOctober 5, 2014.
^Kulsea, Bill; Shawver, Tom (1980).Making Michigan Move: A History of Michigan Highways and the Michigan Department of Transportation. Lansing: Michigan Department of Transportation. p. 10.OCLC 8169232. RetrievedJanuary 18, 2021 – viaWikisource.
^Federal Highway Administration (1977).America's Highways, 1776–1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program. Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office. p. 127.OCLC 3280344.
^"UNION SQUARE AND THE DEMISE OF 'DEAD MAN'S CURVE'". Bowery Boys. July 28, 2010. RetrievedJanuary 15, 2017.
^"The "New Woman" Revised".Publishing.cdlib.org. RetrievedFebruary 9, 2019.
^Smith, Zachary (December 29, 2023)."Why it's called Dead Man's Curve and whether the name really fits".The Plain Dealer. RetrievedAugust 11, 2025.
^^a ^b"Innerbelt Freeway".Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.Case Western Reserve University.
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Sweeney, James (April 22, 2001). "Dead Man's Curve could be worse – in fact, it was".The Plain Dealer. Expanded in
- Sweeney, Jim (2023). "What's the Deal with Dead Man's Curve?".What's the Deal with Dead Man's Curve? And Other Really Good Questions About Cleveland. Gray & Company.ISBN 978-1-59851-131-4.^{[page needed]}
^Cleveland Innerbelt Plan (September 20, 2023)."Cleveland Innerbelt – CUY-CCG4 – Innerbelt Curve"(PDF).Ohio Department of Transportation. Project ID 77413.
^Ritter, Jana."Recent Fatal Crash Prompts Action To Fix 'Deadman's Curve'". TruckDrivingJobs.com. RetrievedMay 18, 2016.
^"Hours of Delays as Crash Stops Traffic on Schuylkill Expressway".NBC10 Philadelphia. June 23, 2020. RetrievedFebruary 18, 2021.

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