London - This is the moment a car lover’s dream became an insurer’s nightmare.
The rare Ferrari F50 was being taken on a test drive when it spun out of control and hit a lamppost in what is thought to be one of the UK’s most expensive single-car crashes.
An insurance company now faces a costly bill to repair the 1990s supercar – only 349 F50s were built to celebrate the Italian carmaker’s 50th anniversary and they now sell for around £850 000 (R15 million). It is thought to be the most valuable car to be involved in a crash since Rowan Atkinson badly damaged his McLaren F1 in 2011.
Seamus O’Brien, 49, from Leicester, was one of the first to arrive at the scene of Wednesday’s accident on the A43 near Brackley, Northamptonshire.
He said: “There was a chap wearing a Ferrari T-shirt stood beside another chap … It looked like a test drive gone wrong. Nobody was hurt apart from some seriously damaged egos.”
Regarded as an F1 car for the road, the F50 can accelerate from 0-96km/h in 3.6 seconds and achieve a top speed of 325km/h.
A spokesman for Northamptonshire Police said: “We were called at 11.11am on Wednesday morning to reports a silver Ferrari was involved in a collision with a lamppost. The lamppost and the car were damaged, but there were no injuries.”
Daily Mail