Lawmakers advanced a resolution to rename part of Highway 46 after James Dean. The renamed stretch covers four miles near the 1955 crash site in Cholame, CA. Caltrans completed a $148M project to ...

Nearly seven decades ago, actor James Dean died in a fateful crash in a quiet part of San Luis Obispo County where Highways 41 and 46 meet. The short-lived movie star’s legacy on and off the silver ...

A fix for the deadly stretch of California highway that claimed James Dean’s life is nearing completion over six decades after his tragic death. On Sept. 30, 1955, Dean hopped in his new Porsche 550 ...

A stretch of Central California highway notorious as a “Blood Alley” — and the site of James Dean’s fatal crash — has been revamped with a new interchange. 4 of 5 victims of Virginia bus crash were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The remains of James Dean's Porsche, which crashed in Central California on Sept. 30, 1955. (ullstein bild via Getty Images) ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - James Dean was not allowed to drive fast cars while he was working on a movie. Problem was, on Sept. 30, 1955, when he got behind the wheel of his German sports car in ...

James Dean was just 24 years old when he was killed in a car accident in 1955. But though the tragedy happened 70 years ago, the Rebel Without a Cause actor remains such an icon that fans are still ...