1966 Buick Electra 225
1966 Buick Electra 225 in Jayne Mansfield's Car, Movie, 2012
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
Comments about this vehicle
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-- ◊ 2013-01-27 14:39 |
![[Image: g2.4.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/8212/g2.4.jpg) ![[Image: g3.4.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/8212/g3.4.jpg) |
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◊ 2013-01-27 18:57 |
This is the reason why we adopted the Underride Guard in USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer_truck#Underride_guard |
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◊ 2013-01-27 20:43 |
I would assume that’s not actually the car she died in, is it? Just a "look-a-like". |
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◊ 2013-01-27 20:51 |
Can we compare this with these police photos out there?  |
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◊ 2013-01-27 21:02 |
Here are photos of the real Electra 225 (I blacked-out the bodies). Very sad. ![[Image: neworleans1967.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0ib/neworleans1967.jpg) ![[Image: dc3a30234295556.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0ib/dc3a30234295556.jpg) |
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◊ 2013-01-28 02:08 |
...and her children...including future "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" star Mariska Hargitay...survived in the back seat. |
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◊ 2013-01-28 02:45 |
Photos like those show how precious life is. It can end so fast, and so easily. One should hug his/her loved-ones often and tell them how much they are loved and cherished. You never know when you might not see them again. |
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◊ 2017-07-15 18:51 |
In the original police report, on the evening of the 28th June 1967, Mansfield was at the Gus Stevens Seafood Restaurant & Buccaneer Lounge on US Highway 90 at Biloxi, Mississippi where she was attending an engagement. Just after midnight on the 29th June, Mansfield, three of her children, Mariska, Zoltán and Miklós, Mansfield's boyfriend and attorney, Sam Brody and Mansfield's driver, Ronnie Harrison got into the Buick and left Biloxi for New Orleans where Mansfield due to speak on the WDSU's Midday Show, the following day. In an interview for Mariska Hargitay's 2025 HBO documentary, My Mom Jayne, Mariska's brother, Zoltán revealed that on the night of the accident, Mansfield got in the back of the Buick with the children and during the journey, Mansfield and Brody got into another argument. According to the documentary, half-way into the journey, the vehicle had stopped at a service station where Mansfield spoke on the service station's payphone with her ex-husband, Mickey Hargitay and informed him of her intentions of leaving Brody (due to his violent behaviour towards Mansfield as he had done on previous occasions) and taking her children, before getting in the front seat of the Buick with Brody and Harrison. About 30 minutes later at 2:25 AM, the Buick were travelling on US Highway 90, west of the Fort Pike Bridge (or the Rigolets Bridge) at Slidell, Louisiana when it crashed into the back of a semi-trailer that was travelling slowly after coming into a fog created by another truck spraying insecticide in front of the semi-trailer. The accident killed Mansfield, Brody and Harrison and left her children (who were asleep in the back of the Buick) with minor injuries. Mariska's documentary had also revealed that her brothers, Zoltán and Miklós were extracted from the vehicle and were being taken to the hospital when Zoltán had woken up and realised that Mariska wasn't in the ambulance, resulting in the ambulance crew to return to the scene where the rescue crew found Mariska stuck under the front passenger seat. After being extracted from the vehicle, Mariska was taken to the hospital with Zoltán and Miklós. After the accident, the trucking industry started to fit the standard underride guard to the bottom rear of all trailers. -- Last edit: 2025-08-15 16:33:09 |
