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Jayne Mansfield's death in horror car crash that spawned grisly urban legend

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On this day in 1967, screen icon Jayne Mansfield was killed in a horror car crash that has since become one of the darkest urban legend's in Hollywood history.

In the early hours of the morning, the 34-year-old starlet took a drive in a 1966 Buick Electra down a narrow country lane close to a swamp in Louisiana as she made her way to a TV appearance in New Orleans.

The road ahead became suddenly obscured by thick mosquito repellent that prevented Jayne's driver from noticing the closeness of a slow-moving truck just in front of them.

At 2:55am, the two vehicles smashed into each other killing Jayne, her boyfriend Sam Brody and their driver Ronnie Harrison instantly.

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