Super car pileup: One of the most expensive car crashes ever?

on nooooo...not the toyota PRIUS!

 

Priuses always screw up traffic. How much do you want to bet that it was going 45 mph in the fast lane?

 

The Prius took the least amount of damage. :grin:

 

the Prius was there to collect insurance money.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4392607...ish-million-dollar-wreck-monaco/#.TtzSavF5mK0

 

It is amazing that people continually buy these supercars yet don't have the slightest clue how to handle them.

 

Asian drivers.

I imagine entire countries of people driving the way they do on Bellaire and I shudder.

 

F1, NASCAR, and rally drivers have accidents too. Doesn't mean they don't know how to handle their cars.

**** happens.

 

Accident: 8 Ferraris 'world's most expensive car crash'

Astonishing accident involving eight Ferraris 'world's most expensive car crash'

A fleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved in one of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-car pile-up in Japan.

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By Andrew Hough10:30PM GMT 04 Dec 2011
Police said three Mercedes Benz cars and a Lamborghini Diablo were also involved in the massive crash at the weekend on the Chugoku Expressway, in the country’s south-west.

Witnesses reported hearing a “tremendous noise” just a few moments before the accident on the Yamaguchi prefecture highway amid terrible driving conditions.

While the majority of the 14 vehicles – which also included a Japanese supercar Nissan GT-R Skyline and a Toyota Prius – were travelling along the Osaka Prefecture-bound bended lane at least one Mercedes CL600 was driving in the opposite direction.

Television footage showed the cars - either wrecked or destroyed - spread across the highway, in a trail of crumpled metal and broken glass. Several of the vehicles were wedged up against the metal barriers.

Miraculously, none of drivers – the majority of whom are reported to be foreign car enthusiasts – were seriously hurt in the wreckage but the bill is still bound to be painful nonetheless.

Such was the severity of the damage, several of the luxury cars have been written off, leaving their owners with the nightmare scenario of seeing their prized possessions turned into expensive scrap metal.

The total damage bill is expected to hit several million pounds. A new Ferrari 355 retails for several hundred thousand pounds.



The other Ferrari models understood to have been involved in the pile-up include a F512, F355, F430 and a F360.

Japanese reports said the crash occurred about 10.15am (local time) on Sunday after the drivers were travelling from Hiroshima to Kyushu.
It is thought the crash occurred when the lead driver hit a central barrier after losing control of their Ferrari while trying to overtake in wet conditions.



They are then reported to have hit the central reservation before rebounding into the path of the oncoming traffic.

They then caused a chain reaction of accidents over several hundred yards as other drivers went around the bend and unable to avoid the accident.
The highway was closed for more than six hours while authorities removed the wrecked cars.



A 36-year-old self-employed man, who did not want to be named, described a scene of chaos as he was driving in the opposite lane at the time of the accident.

"Cars were making a tremendous noise," the man, from Kanzaki, Saga Prefecture, told Japanese media.

Police said ten men and a woman, none of whom have been identified, were taken to hospital with minor injuries and bruising.



An investigation has been launched to establish the case of the crash. No one has been yet been charged over the accident.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...Ferraris-worlds-most-expensive-car-crash.html

 

Not one Enzo? This is not an expensive crash...



DD

 

Fleet of high-performance cars, huh?

One of these things is not like the other.

 

The Prius came out of that wreck like a boss!

 

I'd still give the win to the Veyron that went into the lake off of I-45. That's a 1-car $1-$2 million pile-up. lol.

 

Why are Japanese people doing this? I once saw a kid pulling a goat with his rope on a street in Shangai.

 

http://wot.motortrend.com/insurance...-crashed-bugatti-veyron-into-lake-140909.html

I remember that video from two years ago when it came out. I remember the ridiculous assertion from the driver that he swerved to avoid a pelican. Coincidentally, I was taking an insurance course at the time, and thought to myself that there was no way the guy would be paid. He actually did get paid, even though the video evidence was there from the start. So just thinking about it after this thread, I look it up, and low and behold, the insurance company is trying to get their money back and accusing that driver of fraud.