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Jul 13, 1995 · Donald Gene Turnupseed. American Folk Figure. He was the driver of the 1950 Ford Tudor that collided with a 1956 Porsche Spyder driven by the famed actor James Dean on September 30, 1955.
Jul 25, 2019 · The 24-year-old was driving west on US Route 466 in California, bound for a racing event in Salinas, on September 30, 1955, when his 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder collided with a 1950 Ford Tudor driven...
Its driver, 23-year-old Navy veteran and Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, turned left onto SR 41 headed north toward Fresno.
James Dean's Accidental Killer - Donald Turnupseed - Car Crash 1955 Scott Michaels Dearly Departed. Dearly Departed Tours with Scott Michaels. 193K subscribers. Subscribed. 8K. 394K views 3...
Feb 13, 2022 · The Ford was spun down the highway before it came to a stop and its driver, 23-year-old Donald Turnupseed, escaped with only minor injuries. As for the Porsche, upon impact, it spun in the air before crashing back down to the earth with a sickening crunch and rolling to the side of the road, all the while with James Dean still inside.
Sep 1, 2020 · Dean was barreling down Route 466 at an estimated 85 mph when a young Cal Poly student named Donald Turnupseed, driving a Ford Tudor, decided to make a sudden turn on to Route 41. The impact sent the Ford almost 40 feet down the road and ejected Wütherich from the Porsche.
Mar 2, 2023 · On September 30, 1955, he set off to the race's location with his mechanic Rolf Wütherich. While driving along U.S. Route 446 near Cholame, California, Dean's Porsche crashed into a Ford Tudor driven by 23-year-old Donald Turnupseed that was going in the opposite direction.
Nov 13, 2009 · The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but mostly uninjured; Dean’s passenger, German Porsche mechanic Rolf...
Jul 26, 2019 · Dean, the 24-year-old actor and racer who starred in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden, was killed on September 30, 1955, when his 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder collided with a 1950 Ford Custom driven by Donald Turnupseed near Cholame, California.
Jan 14, 2019 · Donald Turnupseed from Tulare. “I didn’t see him coming,” Turnupseed, then 23, told the Advance-Register in 1955. Turnupseed was coming home to Tulare from Cal Poly State University, San ...
