 Poignantly, Sanford Roth was in James Dean's Ford station wagon driving behind Dean's new Porsche Spyder on the way to the Salinas Road Races on September 30, 1955, when Dean died in a late afternoon traffic accident.Roth took the now famous post-accident photographs.Beulah Roth denied that Sandy ever took any photos of Dean trapped in the wrecked Spyder.