Q. What is it supposed to be on the show? A. A residential intersection, the site of a fatal accident. Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show? A.  On the show, this street is right outside of  "Mad Dog" Moretti's home, at 1682 Sunrise Street, in Miami, Florida. Q. When did we see it on the show? The house shows up twice, first near the end of  Episode 4, and then again at the start of Episode 5.    At the end of episode 4, Mad Dog manages to escape from Dexter's kill table (which Dex had set up in Mad Dog's guitar room), struggles with Dexter (losing a Clapton guitar along the way), and flees out into the night  . Next, we see him running down the middle of the residential street at night, clad only in his underwear — with Dexter in hot pursuit behind him. Desperately fleeing Dexter, Mad Dog makes the mistake of turning to look behind him. just as he runs into the nearby intersection. He loses his footing, and in that moment, a car speeds into the intersection and (unintentionally) runs him over.

With that sudden death, the 4th episode abruptly ends, with Dexter looking shocked.
 

The 5th episode picks up where that scene left off, at the same intersection, in the wake of the fatal accident.  Only this time the camera is focused on Dexter's perspective, as he watches the traumatized driver of the Scout get out, in shock, and try to flag down a passing driver for help, while Mad Dog's body lies in the middle of the street.

Dexter realizes that Miami Metro will soon arrive to investigate the accident scene, and he quickly calculates how long it will take them to get there. He hurries back to Mad Dog's house, to try to remove the evidence of his kill room before the cops show up.

But the police show up earlier than expected, and Dexter almost gets caught while hiding. But he lucks out and isn't discovered.

Q. Where can I find it in real life?

A. When we see Mad Dog running down the street, the camera is looking north, as he is running south down the middle of  Mound Ave (the 1000 block), in South Pasadena, CA, with Dexter right behind him.

The intersection he reaches is that of Mound Ave & Oxley Street.

It is only about 200 feet south of Mad Dog's house. 

The car that hits him is coming from the west, traveling east on Oxley Street, when Mad Dog appears out of nowhere and runs right into its path.

While we are seeing Dexter looking back at the accident scene, as the driver gets out of the car, the camera is now looking south up Mound Ave.

Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?

A.  See my full explanation on the page about Mad Dog's house. 

I was originally going to combine these two locations (the house and the intersection) on the same page, but as I was doing so, the page started getting too long and unwieldy, so I decided to break it into two pages, to make it easier to read.

Since this scene is at night and very dark, details are hard to see in the original screencaps. but I used Photoshop to lighten the images and bring out as much detail as I could. (You can see the results below.)

While studying those few clues, one thing I noticed was that the short wall on the left side corner had been damaged and cracked, as if a car had run into it. ( Here is a blow-up of that curb/wall from the screenshot. )   So I spent a long time looking through Long Beach neighborhoods for for that cracked corner wall, but of course I never found it there. I was on the right track, but in the wrong city.

However, when I finally located the actual intersection in South Pasadena, I was able to use that cracked wall (visible in StreetView) to verify that I was indeed in the right spot, and determine which way the camera was looking during the accident scene. (The cracked curb turned out to be on the northwest corner of the intersection.) 

 You can read all about Mad Dog's house Itself on my separate page here .

Here is a StreetView from Google:

 
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