Ryan Dunn from Jackass killed in car crash

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Jason Deans |Monday June 20 2011 16.50 BST

Ryan Dunn, star of MTV TV and film franchise Jackass, was killed in a car crash early on Monday morning.

The 34-year-old and another passenger died at about 2.30am local time when the car they were travelling in hit a tree and burst into flames in West Goshen, Pennsylvania, NBC Philadelphia reported.

Dunn was identified by his tattoos, according to a witness who was on the scene when the bodies were pulled from the wreckage.

The mother of Dunn's Jackass co-star Bam Margera reportedly called a local radio station to confirm that he was killed in a car accident.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/20/ryan-dunn-jackass-death

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"Jackass" Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Car Accident
Dunn and his passenger were killed when his Porsche slammed into a tree in West Chester County and burst into flames, police say
By Kelly Bayliss and Karen Araiza | Monday, Jun 20, 2011 | Updated 2:20 PM EDT

Source: NBC Philadelphia

"Jackass" star Ryan Dunn was killed early Monday morning when his Porsche flew over a guardrail in West Goshen, Pa., slammed into a tree and burst into flames, according to local police.

Dunn's passenger -- who police have not identified -- was also killed.

Dunn, 34, was identified by his tattoos, according to a witness who was on the scene when the bodies were pulled from the wreckage.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/shows/nonstop/_Jackass_Star__Ryan_Dunn_Dead_at_34_Philadelphia-124191233.html">The one-car accident happened on Route 322 around 2:30 a.m. (video report), according to Officer Geiger with West Goshen police. The Porsche shot through about 40 yards of trees before it hit the last one and exploded into flames, according to police. The police press release (http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/documents/Press+release+Ryan+Dunn.pdf">.PDF) reads, "Preliminary investigation revealed that speed may have been a contributing factor to the accident."

Dunn was last seen at Barnaby's of America in West Chester in the hours before the accident. "Ryan didn't appear drunk before he left," Barnaby's manager told NBC Philadelphia.

Full article: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Jackass-Star-Ryan-Dunn-Dies-in-Car-Accident-124184189.html


Ryan Dunn was one of the stars of Jackass which ran for three series
on MTV and was followed by three movies.
Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/dunn+tumblr.jpg
This picture was http://rndmhro.com/post/6712671221">posted on Dunn's Tumblr about two hours before the accident took place.
It has since been removed from his account.

http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/RyanDunn+Crash+Eric+Lewis.jpg
This is what the car ended up looking like.

[here_is_to_hope]

1. Drunk, 110 mph in a Porsche...

Yeah, won't shed any tears for this guy (too bad for his passenger).

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. 110 mph and drunk? that's suicide

[CBGLuthier]

2. I never heard of him before today and ugly as it may be to say

doesn't sound like I missed much. What a wasted life. lived like an ass and if early indications of drunk driving are correct, died like an ass. Plus killed a friend.

[harmonicon]

18. ... and gave light-hearted entertainment to millions of people.

... but that doesn't matter, does it? No one is allowed to make mistakes.

[Butch350]

21. At least he won't be making anymore mistakes...

[CBGLuthier]

23. I wonder how many other idiots make mistakes imitating this fool and his flock

"Mistakes" that kill, maim, paralyze all in the name of light-hearted entertainment.

Driving while drunk is not a mistake. It is a felony and a fucking disgrace.

[harmonicon]

25. He didn't drive drunk in movies or tv shows.

Yes, people do make mistakes that kill, main, and paralyze, but not as entertainment. Accidents are never mistakes? I guess you don't know anyone you care about who has ever been in a car accident.

[titaniumsalute]

41. You ask "Accidents are never mistakes?"

Yes accidents are mistakes. This wasn't an accident. Unless he never realized that if you drink heavily it impaires judgement then it was a choice. He choose to drink, he choose to drive, he choose to do 110 and he choose to die. He could have killed people in the meantime.

I liked the show Jackass and didn't have any problem with his entertainment. But he is a horse's ass for what he did and I don't feel sorry for him.

[harmonicon]

48. There's no point in feeling sorry for him - he's dead and doesn't care.

That doesn't mean that you can't feel sorry for the people who loved him. "Oh, that's how your son died? Fuck off." doesn't work for me.

[Still Blue in PDX]

26. There are mistakes and then there is criminal behavior.

Still, no one should die like that.

But didn't he earn his living being a "jackass"? I didn't ever watch the show or movies; left the room when my adolescent sons were watching and guffawing over the stupidity on the screen. I'm thankful they are smarter than to emulate (cf. immolate) that behavior. It does seem ironic that he died doing something stupid.

Like I said, though, no one should die like that.

[harmonicon]

27. He was a professional, and very good at what he did.

You may not find it entertaining, but it was all in good fun, and all done by professionals who were never seriously hurt on the job. I happen to think that watching real people perform stunts is far more honest and entertaining than so many shows and movies that glorify violence and misogyny. The difference is that on Jackass, they also were very upfront about how these things were being done by professionals and should never be imitated by amateurs. I wish more forms of entertainment would come with such disclaimers.

[Still Blue in PDX]

32. Thanks for clarifying that.

I did admit that I never watched the show or movies. I happened to catch a segment where an alligator or crocodile was snapping at a guy's crotch, which seems an odd profession, but I believe you!

:shrug:

I have pretty much given up TV except for Doctor Who (and don't even watch that since Amy Pond became the companion). I actually came back here to self-delete my comment but will leave it because what you said is important for anyone who is thinking what I posted.

on edit: To clarify my post, by "criminal behavior" I meant drunk driving, not anything he did onscreen. I did read that he had tweeted pictures earlier in the evening of himself with beer in hand.

[harmonicon]

33. I don't watch much tv myself...

but when I was in grad school, my roommates and I watched the jackass movie a lot. It was a great way for us to relax and have a good time while being stressed out and poor. The guy may have been drunk driving, but I don't think it has anything to do with his job. So many people get in these kinds of accidents, and it's almost always a tragedy, and almost always has nothing to do with their job. I doubt he was being paid to have drinks with friends.

[emilyg]

35. His mistake killed an innocent person.

[harmonicon]

36. Yeah? You're prosecutor, judge, and jury?

Even if that was the case, things like this sometimes happen. It's a tragedy for everyone involved. I'm glad that you've happened to live a life where things like this don't happen to people you care about. I haven't been so lucky.

[emilyg]

37. I'm sorry. It is

the case. No further discussion from me.

[titaniumsalute]

42. So your argument is "Things like this sometimes happen..."

So that means the next time i'm shitfaced i should get behind the wheel and drive 110 mph? I could easily justify by saying "Things like this sometimes happen." I hit a family of four driving home from a night out and kill them. "Oops, sometimes things like this happen."

I'm sorry you have experienced some bad things that have happened to family/friends. We all have. But choosing to get plowed, drive erratically, etc. is not by chance. It is a decision. A bad one.

[harmonicon]

47. Of course it's a bad decision.

When I was a kid and one of my brother's best friends killed another of their best friends in a drunk driving accident, do you think he was happy about it? No, he wasn't. He went to prison (rightfully so), but that could never remove the utter shame, pain, and remorse of the act that he will carry with him for the rest of his life. It is certainly an awful decision, but good people sometimes make these kind of bad decisions. If we start down a road where we condemn people based on single decisions they make, where do we draw the line in deciding who is a good and bad person?

[titaniumsalute]

52. How do you know it was one bad decision that he made

Maybe he made the decision 100 times before to drive intoxicated and this time he paid the price. Do I consider someone who gets hammered, gets behind a very heavy piece of steel, drives over 100 mph, and crashes to their fiery death a bad person? Yes.

I read a few months ago about a lady who got so mad at her baby she threw it out a car window while driving. Do I consider her a bad perso for making that single decision? Fuck yeah I do. Do I think Andrea Yates who offed her kids a bad person for her single decision? Oh yes I do.

[Lint Head]

3. Culling the herd. No one deserves to die but no one should do

stupid things that can kill you.

[harmonicon]

19. would you say that to a family friend?

If you had a friend whose child/spouse/parent died in a car accident (even if drunk, which this is only rumoured to be), would you tell them that it was just "culling the herd"?

[Hawkowl]

20. He was a "jackass"

Who could have forseen that one of the "jackass" boys would die in an accident? Oh yeah, EVERYONE.

[bananas]

24. Another Darwin Award winner. nt

[harmonicon]

31. I think you need to brush up on Darwin Award criteria. nt.

[harmonicon]

30. Did he die making a movie?

He died the way that far too many people die, and it's a tragedy.

[Hawkowl]

38. A tragedy?

No. Every death is not a tragedy.

[harmonicon]

39. This one is.

Two people died. We will never know exactly how or why. I find that to be tragic. Trust me, their loved ones who had to get phone calls or visits from the police telling them about this also find it to be tragic. 30-something isn't exactly a ripe old age.

[LisaL]

44. We will never know? After they do autopsy and toxicology tests,

I guess we might have a pretty good idea.

[harmonicon]

46. Some idea, but not the whole truth.

Whatever the reason doesn't make it non-tragic. I've lost loved ones to disease, suicide, car accidents, etc. I don't think there's one way I would pick over another on the tragedy scale.

[LisaL]

54. Well the autopsy is back.

No mystery there.
""Jackass" star Ryan Dunn was drunk and speeding up to 140 mph when his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 crashed and caught fire on a Pennsylvania highway early Monday, police said Wednesday."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/22/ryan.dunn.drunk/

[bemildred]

55. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt

[LisaL]

56. Not exactly a surprise, is it?

[Butch350]

22. yep, that's right.

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[sarcasmo]

49. +1

[AngryAmish]

4. The herd is thinner.

[Taverner]

5. Well I do feel sorry for him

No one deserves to die

Yeah, that was stupid - 110 MPH with a BAC well over 1.0 (no link yet - heard that on CNN) but drunk people aren't exactly known for their decision making skills

I feel bad for his family - - no parent should ever have to bury their child

[madrchsod]

6. ironic that he died in a car crash.......

but he did top all his jackass brothers...he went out in a ball of flames.


rip ryan...but somehow i don`t think you will.

[MineralMan]

7. I feel for his relatives. n/t

[tridim]

8. Amazed that Steve-O didn't go first.

[here_is_to_hope]

9. Steve-O is now straight edge

and quite sober.
Still crazy but sober.

[Initech]

10. RIP, I love Jackass.

Although I'm surprised that one of them hasnt been killed in one of those crazy stunts they do first.

[ClusterFreak]

11. At a time like this...

...if you can't think of anything good to say, don't say anything at all. How callous can some people be? My God, both have grieving relatives and friends. Would you write some of these comments in a condolence book? Culling the herd? No. Two human beings are tragically dead.

[VAliberal]

12. well said

[closeupready]

14. If I were his passenger's surviving family?

Hard to say I would or wouldn't. I would certainly be angry. Heck, I'm angry about it now, and I'm not surviving family.

[chervilant]

16. + a gazillion

And, thank you for making this point so eloquently.

[JanMichael]

17. This isn't a condolence book.

the same manners don't apply on politically oriented forums. If you are going to be offended by tacky posts on death threads, I suggest you do not click on them. You would have had a stroke 3 minutes after Reagan keeled over.

[closeupready]

13. His passenger also died, which complicates this story. I feel bad

for his loved ones, but how did it happen? Had he been drinking? Was he speeding?

[calimary]

15. Yeah I just saw some of this on tmz.com - drinking and driving claims two more victims.

What a waste.

I told my son and his girlfriend - they hadn't heard yet but they were visibly shocked. So I posted it on my Facebook page because I'm involved with quite a few young people at the moment and I know they sometimes check my page and sometimes they post there. It's a cautionary tale for sure. I pointed out how this shit is irreversible. This dude is GONE. He's DONE. It's OVER. FOREVER. And the two of them responded straight away, and seriously straight-faced - "yeah. No kidding. Done. Ryan Done."

What a waste. Hopefully some other Jackass wannabe might be spared after seeing this. Drinking and driving messes with your judgment - assuming you had any to begin with.

[katnapped]

40. Aw come on now...

Obvious somebody forced all those beers in him. Car was probably possessed too! How else could you explain this?

:sarcasm:

[zappaman]

34. The guy gave me a lot of laughs

Thanks and R.I.P. dude!

[Steerpike]

43. I don't drink...

Nor do I drive fast in cars...but when I was younger I hung with a crowd that firmly believed that if you didn't risk your life at least once a day, you just weren't living.
Live your life fast and hard and have no regrets...

The herd may be thinner, but after all it's just a bunch of cows.

[LisaL]

45. I don't have a problem with someone deciding to risk his or her life.

Putting other people at risk-that's what I have a problem with.

[Steerpike]

50. And...

if he had lived I would have no problem for him being prosecuted for that!

[Blue_Tires]

51. I've seen quite a few wrecks, but none where that little of the car remained...

[roomfullofmirrors]

57. I'll bet identifying the body was tricky. nt

[yurbud]

53. Will Elton John rewrite ''Candle in the Wind'' for him like after Princess Di crashed?

[Pool Hall Ace]

58. "Jackass in the Wind" ??