Rock stars that died driving like an asshole

[Venus Flytrap]

If I remember my Behind the Music correctly, Jan from Jan & Dean drove straight into a parked truck near Dead Man's Curve in California. The spot they had a song by the same name.

[wildside1969]

If I remember my Behind the Music correctly, Jan from Jan & Dean drove straight into a parked truck near Dead Man's Curve in California. The spot they had a song by the same name.

The car accident didn't kill him. His car accident happened on April 12th, 1966. He had a seizure and died on March 26th, 2004.

[wildside1969]

Honorable mention to Rick Allen even though he lived.

Rick was driving normally. He was run off the road by an asshole jealous of his success.

Rick says differently. In this 2021 Forbes article he said he lost his cool, sped up to pass the car and lost control as he was rounding a long corner.

[CrankerBait]

Cozy Powell. Driving 100+ MPH in the rain, over the legal blood alcohol limit, and not wearing a seatbelt. On his way to meet his girlfriend who was married to another guy.

I forgot to add in my original post that he was also talking on his phone at the time.

[HottKarl777]

Cozy Powell. Driving 100+ MPH in the rain, over the legal blood alcohol limit, and not wearing a seatbelt. On his way to meet his girlfriend who was married to another guy.

I forgot to add in my original post that he was also talking on his phone at the time.

He was the inspiration for the thread. I read the account and all his buddies were zero surprised when he finally bought it.


Duane Allman liked screaming through town riding a chopper with no helmet every day. High as giraffe balls. By all accounts Duane was a miserable SOB most of the time though so that tracks.

[Hatchets Molly]

Harry Chapin was weaving back & forth across lanes on the Long Island Expressway at 15 mph before getting wiped out by a grocery truck. I think that counts as driving like an asshole

Was it full of 30,000 lbs of bananas?

[CrankerBait]

Cozy Powell. Driving 100+ MPH in the rain, over the legal blood alcohol limit, and not wearing a seatbelt. On his way to meet his girlfriend who was married to another guy.

I forgot to add in my original post that he was also talking on his phone at the time.

He was the inspiration for the thread. I read the account and all his buddies were zero surprised when he finally bought it.


Duane Allman liked screaming through town riding a chopper with no helmet every day. High as giraffe balls. By all accounts Duane was a miserable SOB most of the time though so that tracks.

I'm amazed that there aren't more rock stars that have checked out like this. I can think of more professional hockey players who've died needlessly behind the wheel than rock stars.

[GoodJudge]

I'm amazed that there aren't more rock stars that have checked out like this. I can think of more professional hockey players who've died needlessly behind the wheel than rock stars.

TBF, I'm surprised more ice hockey players haven't died on the rink. There's a reason for "I went to watch a fight and a hockey game broke out".

[CrankerBait]

I'm amazed that there aren't more rock stars that have checked out like this. I can think of more professional hockey players who've died needlessly behind the wheel than rock stars.

TBF, I'm surprised more ice hockey players haven't died on the rink. There's a reason for "I went to watch a fight and a hockey game broke out".

Hockey players are tough. I've seen players take really bad cuts to the face or lose multiple teeth/crowns to pucks or sticks, and they usually get stitched up in the room and are back on the ice by the time the next period starts. Like football, hockey has a culture of playing through pain, and like football, before concussion protocols were introduced, players with head injuries in the past would typically hit the smelling salts right after they finished puking and would tell their coach they were good to before getting back in the game.

It is kind of amazing that more of them haven't died during games. It hasn't killed anybody in the NHL before, but there have been unlucky hockey players in Europe or at the amateur level who have taken the one in a million puck or stick to the chest and gone into cardiac arrest. I guess that a punch or a well hit baseball could do the same.

[Demon Kogure]

Honorable mention to Rick Allen even though he lived.

Rick was driving normally. He was run off the road by an asshole jealous of his success.

Can Pete Willis even see over a steering wheel?

omg where's that "funniest posts" thread

[HottKarl777]

Another honorable mention to Allen Collins from Skynyrd. After countless nights driving black out drunk he killed his girlfriend but only managed to put himself in a wheelchair. In 1987 they would roll him out onstage like Timmy from South Park to tell their black out drunk audience to be careful on the way home.

I saw them wheel him out one time for that stay out of prison public service announcement, you couldn't even understand him... he sounded like he had brain damage. It was strange and creepy.

Yeah it was awful to have to see him do that. He was such a great player, writer and performer. I always thought he was the "cool" dude in that band onstage even though Gaines could play circles around the both of them.