Most expensive accident ever?

[daisy]

Ferrari 250 GTO crashed

This is the before picture, haven't found one of it wrecked yet.

[beepbeep]

Holy frick! One of 39 made? Find after pics, plz.

[green-lantern]

Ouch!

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14-car pileup in Japan last year, including:
8 Ferraris
1 Lamborghini
3 Mercedes-Benzes
and a Prius

Massive Japanese crash claims eight Ferraris, three Benzes, and a Lamborghini

A single miscalculation from a Ferrari driver earlier today in Japan led to a chain reaction that ultimately wrecked or destroyed 14 vehicles including eight Ferraris, three Mercedes, a Lamborghini, a Skyline, and a Prius that was in the right place at the wrong time.
A group of foreign car enthusiasts were heading to Hiroshima from Kyushu when one of the drivers lost control trying to overtake a car on a wet, curved part of China Road in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ferrari driver reportedly hit the median and created a reaction that caused the other cars in the lineup to crash, according to Japanese media (translated).

No one was seriously hurt in the crash, but the vehicular carnage is severe. Video from the Japanese TV report above, as well as photos from Twitter and other news sites shows a trail of expensive Italian metal dotted with Japanese and German cars.

It's slightly difficult to tell from pictures, but the Ferraris involved appear to include multiple F355s, F430s (including a Scuderia), an F360, and some form of F512.

Other cars include the aforementioned Mercedes-Benz products (including a CL600-ish type vehicle), a car described as a Lamborghini Diablo, a Nissan Skyline, and one Toyota Prius.

The accident shut down the road for six hours as cleanup crews tried to untangle the mess.

14-Car Japanese Supercar Smash-Up A "Gathering Of Narcissists"

An officer responding to yesterday's massive multi-million-dollar Japanese supercar crash — eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, three Mercedes-Benzes, and a Prius were among the 14 cars involved — called the car convoy a "gathering of narcissists." Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture's Expressway Traffic Police unit, told Bloomberg the person suspected of causing the accident, a 60-year-old self-employed man from ***uoka prefecture, may now face up to three months in jail or a fine of as much as 100,000 yen ($1,280), said Isejima. The accident included a Ferrari F-360 that costs more than 18 million yen ($231,000). It took longer than six hours to clear the highway of wreckage, Isejima said.

Video: Counting the cost of Japanese super car pile-up as classic Ferrari Testarossa pays heaviest price - Telegraph
Ferraris destroyed in costly Japan motorway pile-up | World news | The Guardian
Super cars in multimillion-dollar road accident in Japan - video | World news | guardian.co.uk

some video on those sites, too

[daisy]

Forgot about that pile-up. Think it takes the cake!

[RealMcCoy]

Forgot about that pile-up. Think it takes the cake!

Not as far as monetary value.... The vast majority of the cars in that pile up can be had for $150K or less. I bet there isn't more than 3 mil. stacked up there. Nowhere near the estimated 31 mil. that 250 GTO is valued at.

The good news is, that car was hand built when it was new... And for probably a quarter of it's value or less, can be hand re-built to a state you'd never know it was wrecked...

[Goallie11]

I was thinking of that Japanese wreck when I saw the thread title, but just one GTO wrecking actually takes the cake.

However I'm sure it can be restored for much less like RealMcCoy said.

[MeTarzan]

can be hand re-built to a state you'd never know it was wrecked...

the article said that the same car had been wrecked before and restored prior to the current owner buying it...so I'm sure if it was in a parade they can rebuild it to new....