 While driving home early in the morning of 16 September, Jones crashed Bolan's purple Mini 1275 GT into a tree (now the site of Bolan's Rock Shrine), after failing to negotiate a small humpback bridge near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London, a few miles from his home at 142 Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen.While Jones was severely injured, Bolan was killed in the crash, two weeks before his 30th birthday.As Bolan had been the only constant member of T. Rex and also the only composer and writer, his death ultimately ended the band.