World’s Most Expensive Car Accident
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Eight Ferrari (2 Ferrari F430, Ferrari f355 2, 2 Ferrari F360), a Lamborghini Diablo, 3 Mercedes-Benz and two Toyota Prius is part of the 14-car accident in Shimonoseki Japan on 6 December 2011 that destroyed the vehicle for more than 1 million U.S. dollars or equivalent to 9 billion dollars.
“The accident occurred when one driver of a red Ferrari switch from right to left lane and slipped,” said Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for the unit of Toll Road Traffic Police Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Isejima explains further that “It is a meeting narcissist” The drivers aged between 37 and 60 years.
The accident occurred at 10:16 local time, after the rain stopped at the Toll Road Chugoku Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western end of Japan’s main island of Honshu.
The accident occurred when a group convoy of Kyushu toward Hiroshima. No casualties were reported in the accident, 10 people suffered bruises.
Suspected causes of accidents are self-employed man from Fukuoka prefecture was 60 years old, with the threat of punishment up to three months imprisonment or a fine of 100,000 yen ($ 1280) or equivalent with, The accident including the Ferrari F-360 That cost more than 18 million yen It took more than six hours to clear the highway of the wreckage
Condition of all cars could be said was heavily damaged, while others are nearly off the hood. According to the Japan Automobile Importers Association site. All eight Ferrari involved in road accidents registered in Kyushu Chugoku expressway, police said meanwhile, Miki Kataoka, Ferrari spokesman in Japan, declined to comment on the accident.