Eight Ferraris Wrecked

Authorities in Japan were still reconstructing Monday how eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes wrecked on an expressway Sunday morning, coating the road in an Italian red metal sauce price over $1 million. It’s not a sight for those squeamish regarding totaled supercars.

Some fourteen cars in all were concerned within the chain-reaction crash on an expressway named China Road in Yamaguchi prefecture, leaving ten folks with minor injuries. whereas the injuries were light-weight, many of the vehicles seem totaled. 

How did such a big amount of Ferraris find yourself on the road together? The cluster — that Japanese police officers known as “a gathering of narcissists” — were driving to a supercar meet-up in Hiroshima, where regarding one hundred vehicles were expected to point out. joined driver who was invited along however passed noted, it absolutely was uncommon for such a drive to require the expressway — where speeds are closely monitored and traffic may be thicker attributable to lower tolls on Sundays. Even so, the Ferraris were estimated to own been running between eighty mph and one hundred mph when the crash happened.

Police and video reports say the wreck began when a 60-year-old businessman from Fukushima driving a Ferrari F430 tried to pass a Toyota Prius, however instead hit the guardrail. That set out a series reaction among the cars driving during a tight formation behind the lead Ferrari, eventually wrapping up seven different Ferraris — particularly a 360 Modena, F355 and a white Testarossa — beside a Lamborghini Diablo and a handful of high-end Mercedes.

The Prius sustained some rear bumper injury, however escaped comparatively unharmed.

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