In what may be if not the worst, one of the nastiest and most expensive supercar crashes of all time, 14 vehicles including eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini, a Toyota Prius and an unspecified Toyota, were involved in a massive pile-up on the Chugoku expressway in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan on Sunday.
Luckily, no fatalities were reported though ten drivers suffered bruising and some minor injuries.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching from the right lane to the left and skidded,” Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police unit told Bloomberg News. “It was a gathering of narcissists," said Isejima who added that the drivers were aged between 37 and 60 years old.
Unidentified eyewitnesses told reporters at the scene that the group of Ferraris, which included several F360s and a white Testarossa (or 512 TR / F512 M), were travelling over the speed limit going around 140km/h to 160km/h (85mph to 100mph).
Local media estimated that the total worth of the supercars alone is somewhere around 300 million yen or about US$3.85 million / €2.85 million.
"I've never seen such a thing," highway patrol lieutenant Eiichiro Kamitani told the AFP News agency. "Ferraris rarely travel in such large numbers."
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13 Comments:
That's a sad vision..
Beside maybe in Maranello, they wipes there tears and preparing for some orders...
But sad.
not a prius....say it ain't so
DAM DAM DAAAM
Not that's funny right there...I don't care who you are. LMAO! Pack of wannabe race car drivers with money but no brains or skill all wipe out their toys. Hi larious! Here's yer sign: L
How do you crash eight cars together on a stretch of road like that? Was this a pinball game???
Sad.
just 14 bad drivers...with money. Anyone else notice the black one seemed relatively okay?
dang...... glad all drivers were ok....minor injuries at most. Oh well....time for newer Ferrari's.....those were older cars.... perfect timing for new 458 orders..
No profetional racer would engage on a public road with drivers of unknown quality. These costly lessons arrive speedily in the lap of those who will benifit from them most
The Prancing Horse : I used be a Horse, but then i took an arrow to my knee.
The red one is mine...
Asian drivers :)
And the price of car insurance in Japan goes up.
Are they still friends after the crash?
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