Man prangs £830k Bugatti Veyron
As a fan of all things fast and furious, reading this really hurt….
An unknown driver trashed an £830,000 Bugatti Veyron on Sunday in what UK tabloid The Sun is calling "the world's costliest road crash".
The 253mph beast crashed in pouring rain on a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey, while allegedly doing 100mph. The driver apparently lost control and the hand-built French motor hit a Vauxhall Astra before "smashing into trees up a 3ft bank".
An eyewitness told The Sun: "It was clearly an almighty bang. Bits of Bugatti were strewn all over the road. The front had been virtually ripped off, every panel was damaged and the front wheels were pointing in opposite directions."
The Veyron is owned by by a businessman "who runs a car hire and management company with his brothers", The Sun notes. He claimed he'd rented it to the driver for a cool £20,000 having coughed up an over-the-odds £925,000 for the car, which was delivered just a week earlier.
Regarding a possible salvage operation, Nick Lancaster of car dealers HR Owen said: "It is the first Veyron I have heard of being damaged. We cannot say yet whether it is written off or not."
The Register
An unknown driver trashed an £830,000 Bugatti Veyron on Sunday in what UK tabloid The Sun is calling "the world's costliest road crash".
The 253mph beast crashed in pouring rain on a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey, while allegedly doing 100mph. The driver apparently lost control and the hand-built French motor hit a Vauxhall Astra before "smashing into trees up a 3ft bank".
An eyewitness told The Sun: "It was clearly an almighty bang. Bits of Bugatti were strewn all over the road. The front had been virtually ripped off, every panel was damaged and the front wheels were pointing in opposite directions."
The Veyron is owned by by a businessman "who runs a car hire and management company with his brothers", The Sun notes. He claimed he'd rented it to the driver for a cool £20,000 having coughed up an over-the-odds £925,000 for the car, which was delivered just a week earlier.
Regarding a possible salvage operation, Nick Lancaster of car dealers HR Owen said: "It is the first Veyron I have heard of being damaged. We cannot say yet whether it is written off or not."
The Register
posted by Postcards From The Ledge at
5:20 AM
2 Comments:
Oh dear, that really is difficult to read.
By
Anonymous, at 6:33 AM
That guy has too much money if he can drive recklessly in a car that cost that much. I like fast cars but I dont think they should be on our roads as it is irrisponsible people like this guy who gets them so I think I will stick to my small Vauxhall at least if I have an accident I can afford genuine Vauxhall parts, Veyron parts probably cost more than my entire car.
By
Anonymous, at 7:02 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home