Eddie Cochran, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 16 April 1960 - from our story 'Last Rides: Photographs of Where Stars Died In Car Crashes'

Eddie Cochran, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 16 April 1960 The American singer leaves a concert in a taxi with his fiancee, Sharon Sheeley, and Gene Vincent. A tyre bursts and the vehicle strikes one lamppost then another. Cochran tries to protect Sheeley but is thrown out of the car. He dies in a Bath hospital the following day. Vincent wears a black glove for a long time in memory of his friend

Eddie Cochran, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 16 April 1960 The American singer leaves a concert in a taxi with his fiancee, Sharon Sheeley, and Gene Vincent. A tyre bursts and the vehicle strikes one lamppost then another. Cochran tries to protect Sheeley but is thrown out of the car. He dies in a Bath hospital the following day. Vincent wears a black glove for a long time in memory of his friend

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