German film director F.W. Murnau died March 11, 1931, after being injured in an automobile accident. Murnau was riding in the back seat of a car traveling on the Pacific Coast Highway near Santa Barbara, California. The car reportedly crashed after trying to avoid an oncoming truck, and Murnau died in a hospital in Santa Barbara the next day. He was 41 years old.
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