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Sam Kinison, 38, Comedian, Dies; Wife Injured in Head-On Collision Published: April 12, 1992. Sam Kinison, a former tent preacher who gained fame as a shrieking and often insulting stand-up comedian, was killed Friday night in a head-on automobile crash on a desert highway near Needles, Calif. He was 38 years old and lived in the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles.
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- A drunk driver ran a red light in his Toyota Sienna minivan and hit the car in which Adenhart was a passenger, driving it into a light pole. Of the three other people in the car, the driver and one passenger died, and the other passenger survived an internal decapitation.
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Comedian Jonathan Winters dies at 87 Jonathan Winters, who was known for his improv work that inspired many a contemporary stand-up comic including Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and others, has died. He was 87. Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says Winters died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, reports AP.
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Ralphie May Cause of Death: How Did the Comedian Die? Comedian Ralphie May died early in Las Vegas on Friday, according to TMZ. May had been battling pneumonia for the past six weeks and passed away after doing into cardiac arrest. He was just 45 years old. May has been a part of the stand-up comedy scene since the early 2000s. In 2003, he competed on Last Comic Standing, finishing in second place. He has toured the world and has a couple of comedy specials.
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- What is Chicago style drag racing? Garten was racing at the Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, on June 27, 2015 when his 1973 Mustang Nostalgia funny car crossed the center line and collided with the opposing driver. The 69-year-old Garten was thrown from his chassis and died in the hospital the next day.
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Comedian John Pinette Dead At 50, After Losing 200 Pounds And Getting Sober Comedian John Pinette Dead At 50, After Losing 200 Pounds And Getting Sober. Overweight comedians continue to have a worse life expectancy than Chernobyl survivors, as comic John Pinette died over the weekend, at the age of 50, in a hotel room, where all real comedians die. THR reports that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.
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- Tracy Morgan, 45, was critically injured in a six-vehicle accident in Cranbury Township, N.J., on Saturday. The actor and comedian Tracy Morgan finished a stand-up comedy show in Delaware on Friday night and headed back to New York City with several other comedians.
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Jeff Conaway, Actor In âTaxi,â Is Dead at 60 Jeff Conaway, Actor In ‘Taxi,’ Is Dead at 60. Jeff Conaway, the personable actor who won television fame on the sitcom “Taxi” and movie success in the musical “Grease” three decades ago and who later publicly struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 60.
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Cars Co-Founder Orr Dead at 53 Cars Co-Founder Orr Dead at 53. Benjamin Orr, singer-bassist for new wave icons the Cars, died Tuesday night in his Atlanta home, after a five-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 53. Orr and Ric Ocasek formed the seminal Boston band, which would go on to score six Top 20 albums and 13 Top 40 singles, in 1976.
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Veteran CBS correspondent Bob Simon joins list of stars lost too soon to violent car crashes Bob Simon died Wednesday in a crash in Manhattan. The car crash that claimed the life of veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon is one in a long list of car accidents that have taken the lives of some of the most notable celebrities through the years. Princess Diana died in a crash in Paris in 1997. She was 36.
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- John Pinette Dead: Comedian And 'Seinfeld' Actor Dies At 50. John Pinette was found dead on April 6. The comedian was discovered in his Pittsburgh hotel room around 2:30 p.m., according to the Allegheny County medical examiner's office. TMZ reports that Pinette was suffering from liver and heart disease.
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Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies at 57 Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies at 57. The 'Chappelle Show' star died from leukemia on Wednesday. Charlie Murphy, Chappelle Show star and Eddie Murphy's older brother, has died, publicist Domenick Nati told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 57. Murphy died from leukemia on Wednesday, said Nati.
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Modest Mouseâs Isaac Brock causes car crash after falling asleep at the wheel Just days after wrapping up Modest Mouse’s joint headlining tour with Brand New in Portland, Oregon, the tuckered frontman fell asleep at the wheel of his car and caused a four-car pile-up.
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Brandy Tells Witness Fatal Crash Was Her Fault Brandy's Moesha co-star, Lamont Bentley, was killed in January, 2005 when his car plunged off the same freeway. Another Moesha co-star, Merlin Santana, was killed by a gunshot wound while sitting in the passenger seat of a car in 2002.
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Comedian Andy Kaufman 'faked his death', brother claims Image caption Kaufman's eccentric comedy act often incorporated elaborate pranks. Cult comedy star Andy Kaufman faked his own death in 1984 and is still alive, his brother has claimed. Kaufman, best known for playing the incompetent Latka Gravas on the 1970s sitcom Taxi, officially died from lung cancer in 1984.
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Celebrity Automobile Accidents Famous people who have died in car crashes July 29, 1951: Race car driver Cecil Green (31) lost control of his car at the Winchester Speedway in Indiana, went over an embankment, and died on his way to the hospital. July 29, 1951: Minutes later at the Winchester Speedway, race car driver Bill Mackey (born William Gretsinger Jr.) was killed during his qualifying attempt as his car spun out of the track at the same point as Green's car.
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- Pictured: Sleeping Walmart truck driver who slammed into Tracy Morgan's limo leaving him in critical condition and his friend dead. A Walmart truck driver who is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel causing a fatal six-car crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan turned himself in, police confirmed on Sunday.
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Lou Ferrigno Death Hoax: Hulk Star 'Killed in Car Crash' Lou Ferrigno Death Hoax: Hulk Star 'Killed in Car Crash'. Lou Ferrigno Death Hoax: Hulk Star dispelled the rumours himself by posting a video on Facebook. American actor and retired professional bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno is the latest victim of a celebrity death hoax.
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Tracy Morgan Critically Hurt in New Jersey Car Crash Tracy Morgan, 45, was critically injured in a six-vehicle accident in Cranbury Township, N.J., on Saturday. Credit Greg Allen/Invision, via Associated Press. The actor and comedian Tracy Morgan finished a stand-up comedy show in Delaware on Friday night and headed back to New York City with several other comedians.
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MTV Star Erik Roner DiesKilled In Skydiving Accident 9/28/2015 3:22 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF. breaking news. Action sports star Erik Roner -- one of the stars of MTV's  Nitro Circus  -- died in a freak skydiving accident in Lake Tahoe, California ... this according to the resort where it happened.
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Dale Earnhardt In February 2001, Earnhardt died instantly of injuries sustained, after he collided with Ken Schrader and crashed his car in the final lap of the Daytona 500 – an unexpected event that was widely lamented in the racing industry.
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'Affluenza' DUI Case: What Happened Night of the Accident That Left 4 People Dead Email. The so-called affluenza case of a Texas teenager who caused a fatal car accident that killed four people and severely wounded another made national headlines in 2013 when 16-year-old Ethan Couch's defense team used an unusual argument during the trial.
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Tracy Morgan accident: Details, video emerge following deadly pileup Gruesome details of the weekend crash involving comedian Tracy Morgan and its aftermath are emerging. The driver of Morgan's limousine bus said he heard the comedian screaming out for help after his vehicle rolled several times down a New Jersey highway after being rammed by a semi trailer whose driver had not slept for more than 24 hours.
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- John Pinette, the chubby stand-up comedian who portrayed a hapless carjacking victim in the final episode of Seinfeld, has died. He was 50. Pinette died of natural causes Saturday at a hotel in Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office said Sunday evening.
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Trucker in Tracy Morgan crash hadn't slept for 28 hours, NTSB says (CNN)A truck driver's fatigue -- exacerbated by his decision to drive 12 hours to work before he even started his 14-hour shift -- likely caused the June 2014 crash that killed comedian James McNair and seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan in New Jersey, federal officials said Tuesday.
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MTV Star Erik Roner DiesKilled In Skydiving Accident The spokesperson says Roner hit a tree on the way down -- and died from injuries suffered in the accident. Roner is a legend in the action sports community -- he's worked with Red Bull and was often featured on Travis Pastrana 's Nitro Circus show. He was 38.