Kungens Kurva ("The King's Bend" or "The King's Curve" in Swedish ) is a part of Huddinge Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm, 20 km south of the city. The area got its name on Saturday afternoon, September 28th, 1946, when King Gustaf V's Cadillac Series 75 Fleetwood Sedan (1939 model) drove into a ditch in the area. 

The king and his companion were on their way home from a hunt near Tullgarn Castle in Hölö. The car was driven by Gösta Ledin who kept 65 kilometers per hour and lost control of the car after an elongated right curve on the Old Södertalje Road just west of Juringe farm. The royal car slid off the road and stopped after twenty meters in a water-filled ditch.The king was uninjured.  

The newspaper Dagens Nyheter photographed it all and published an article about the event in its Sunday edition under the heading "Royal car in the ditch in Segeltorp".

Today it is difficult to find the accident site. The Södertalje Road is straightened and has also become the E4 / E20 motorway, but the accident ditch itself and a short stretch of the old road bank of Södertalje Road still remain. The site is located in a forest area about 200 meters north of Circle K's gas station and behind the Scandic Hotel.

To commemorate the incident, the municipality has decided to call a planned square south of the Kungens Kurva shopping center Gustav V's square (Gustav V:s torg). 

Source: Wikipedia

Photo: Dagens Nyheter, 29 September 1946