Jayne Mansfield Accident: What happened to Jayne Mansfield in the accident?

In 1967, Mansfield was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club. After two appearances on the evening of June 28, Mansfield, Sam Broady, their driver Ronnie Harrison and three of her children left Biloxi after midnight in a 1966 Buick Electra 225.

At about 2:25 am on June 29, on US Highway 90, 1 mile west of the Rigolets Bridge, the Buick crashed at high speed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed behind a truck spraying mosquito fogger.

The semi-trailer was shrouded by insecticide fog. The three adults died instantly. The children, asleep in the rear seat, survived with minor injuries. Reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma.

This urban legend started with the appearance of police photographs of the crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car’s smashed windshield.