The musician Jake Drake-Brockman, a former member with the Liverpool group Echo & the Bunnymen, was involved in a fatal road traffic accident near Orrisdale North while visiting the Isle of Man for the Manx Grand Prix when the vintage BSA motorcycle he was riding was in collision with a converted ambulance.
In August 2009, for the 2009 Manx Grand Prix a section of grass bank is removed from the southern side of Keppel Gate.
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