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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 11:29 AM
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Exotic Crashes

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/...TgxNjU1Wj.html

David Riggs smashed his silver Ferrari 360 into a lightpole last November in Palm Beach, Fla. Passersby made comments like "wow, you are really having a bad day."



Adnan K. Mehmood, a 32-year-old from Miami, likes to test the limits of his super cars. He has taken his 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster model faster than 191 mph a number of times on freeways.



One participant in last year's Gumball rally crashed his purple Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster in Thailand. As it was going down an incline at more than 100 mph, it went over a "massive" bump that sent it flying. When it landed, the right front wheel buckled and the vehicle spun off into the trees, taking down a few. It conveniently landed perfectly parked in a bar parking lot.



One night last December, voiceover artist Kris Erik Stevens, 53, was driving his 1996 red 355 Spyder down a hill in Calabasas, Calif., when he hit a patch of water on the road, lost control and collided with a tree. "It was like being superman without his cape," says Mr. Stevens, who needed 15 staples to close a gash in his head.



Anthony Almada, 46, lost control of his Porsche Carrera GT last year on a wet uphill bend. The $440,000 vehicle ended up totaled after spinning at least six times.



Martin Gegenfurtner, a 21-year-old online entrepreneur in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, was driving his Lamborghini Murcielago at about 137 mph on a sunny Sunday afternoon nearly three years ago in Germany. He says the car suddenly made a 90-degree turn on a dry and straight road, broke through the guardrail and landed upside down in the woods. "No driver error could result in such a crash," says Mr. Gegenfurtner, who has started a Web site about his experience called "Lamborghini Murcielago -- Or: A dream becomes a nightmare."



Not long after Ali Haas bought his Ferrari Enzo, a spool of wire sent it skidding into a guardrail in Florida. The vehicle ended up crushed under the rail, its front hood and bumper ruined and the carbon fiber "split into a million pieces." "Bummer," Dr. Haas remembers thinking. He got it back fixed last summer and now rarely drives it at night.

 
Old Jun 17, 2007 | 11:54 AM
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Yeah, I read that article over on Ferrarichat.



I can't believe how selfish the passer-bys are.



Everyone gets into accidents. Why do they think they're any better? Especially without knowing who was at fault.



I read the website of the 21 year old from Switzerland and his Murci crash on the Autobahn. He is trying to get Lambo owners together who have shared the same experience.
 

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