Video: 'Jan Berry's Brush with Death at Dead Man's Curve'

(Tuesday, April 12, 1966, 11:53 a.m. PST) — Singer Jan Berry, 25, of the Jan and Dean rock duo, was seriously injured today when he crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard (very close to a legendary “Dead Man’s Curve” that Jan & Dean had immortalized in a hit single).

Video: 'The Tragic Life and Death of William Jan Berry (Jan and Dean)'

Berry, who was in a coma for nearly two months, suffered extensive brain damage and paralysis and needed several years of rehabilitation.