Supercars in 'world's most expensive crash'
were speeding, police say Speeding was identified as a possible cause of what
is believed to be one of the world's most expensive ever road accidents when up
to £2.6 million-worth of supercars ended up in a crumpled heap on a motorway in
Japan.
Eight Ferraris and a
Lamborghini –
plus a Toyota Prius – were among the
vehicles involved in the crash, which witnesses said happened when a speeding
car slid across a wet road surface.
Television footage showed
mangled Ferraris – many of them racing red – and debris spread over some 400
metres of the eastbound side of the Chugoku Expressway, the main trunk road in
southern Honshu.
A pack of about 20
supercars was
travelling in convoy on Sunday
morning on a stretch of wet highway when the leading
Ferrari slid into a guardrail, police said.
Those behind slammed on
their brakes, but for many of them it was apparently too late.
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