6 People Hit by 458 Scud This Morning in Battersea

[anonymous-user]

I know that spot very well. 10-1 The Ferrari accelerated hard off the lights where the entrance into New Covent Garden is. It's a gentle right had bend, but at the moment the road is usually covered in muck dropped from trucks exiting the Battersea Power Station development. Cold greasy mucky curved road, too much gas and too little ability.

The road rises to go over some railway lines. The drop is about 20 feet at its highest point. This is the view from the road on the dropside of the wall. The Ferrari is parked up by the lamppost between the two pedestrians

Just hope the pedestrians are OK.

[jayemm89]

Hungrymc said:

On the topic of grip levels being so much lower in cold (and damp) weather. Do scuderias (speciales?) come on track day / circuit biased tyres?

Hate seeing incidents like this. I know accidents happen and I enjoy a spirited drive, but terrible to see others getting tangled up in a drivers accident (I appreciate we don't know the details, but you'd have to suspect the car has mounted the pavement due to a driver error). Hope none are too badly hurt.

A lot of hatchbacks(!) are now being supplied with Cup tyres because they know magazines put them round a track and on a dry track they make a significant difference. Unfortunately in December they make a significant difference in the other direction. It's very short-sighted IMHO. A Speciale will certainly be available (probably by default) with super-sticky dry tyres, not designed at all for winter. In fairness, any car with lots of power and large tyres can become very scary, very quickly.

I used to live in london for years and seeing Ferraris doing 0-40 dashes at full throttle was pretty commonplace. I'm just surprised this doesn't happen more often. I too hope those affected are alright.

[TerryThomas]

WinstonWolf said:

Durzel said:

Scud?!?

Hand in your PH badge and head on over to Mumsnet...

Amazing that a PH member gets it wrong and the BBC get it right. The media are notoriously bad with getting info about cars correct.

[Durzel]

WinstonWolf said:

p1stonhead said:

WinstonWolf said:

Durzel said:

Scud?!?

Hand in your PH badge and head on over to Mumsnet...

I assume he means it's a Speciale and not a Scuderia which was based on the 430.

Hand your card in!

fk, I might be about to get petarded

I did indeed mean "Scud" as in "there is no 458 Scuderia".

[WinstonWolf]

Durzel said:

p1stonhead said:

I assume he means it's a Speciale and not a Scuderia which was based on the 430.

Hand your card in!

Thanks

:flicksvees:

I only saw the Scud bit and thought it was a "wot's a Scud post"

[Swampy1982]

AndrewEH1 said:

Hadn't seen the photo of the car with the smashed rear window!

Still the press do love to over sensualise everything...

Hopefully all injured recover quickly.

sensualise... are you sure thats what you mean?

[p1stonhead]

WinstonWolf said:

Durzel said:

p1stonhead said:

I assume he means it's a Speciale and not a Scuderia which was based on the 430.

Hand your card in!

Thanks

:flicksvees:

I only saw the Scud bit and thought it was a "wot's a Scud post"

Dont worry I think it says more about how sad I am that I knew that!

[rigga]

Owner driver, or rental I wonder?

[AndrewEH1]

Swampy1982 said:

sensualise... are you sure thats what you mean?

Yes (although it was a typo on my part......)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Monday 12th December 14:54

[Durzel]

p1stonhead said:

WinstonWolf said:

Durzel said:

p1stonhead said:

I assume he means it's a Speciale and not a Scuderia which was based on the 430.

Hand your card in!

Thanks

:flicksvees:

I only saw the Scud bit and thought it was a "wot's a Scud post"

Dont worry I think it says more about how sad I am that I knew that!

We're all winners in our own way.

Also as said above - Speciale comes with Cup tyres as standard, which aren't exactly wet weather friendly. Wouldn't take much to go sideways I'd imagine.

[SirSquidalot]

Tut tut, driver most likely being a tt i suspect. What do we think, over correction after an attempt to skid?

[ukaskew]

untakenname said:

Looks like it's true judging from the pics of the other car here http://newsyarn.com/six-people-injured-after-ferra...

Ouch, when I read it I assumed it wasn't a full-on motorway style bridge, but even so that's a pretty nasty fall after just being hit by a car.

As somebody else mentioned, landing on the car may have been a blessing in disguise.

[untakenname]

Looks like the incident will have been captured on cctv so hopefully there shouldn't be any ambiguity when it gets to court http://www.trafficgalaxy.uk/cameras/greater-london...

I had a near miss earlier this month at Brandshatch due to the changing conditions, came off at Paddock Hill bend around 3pm as the track had evolved so called it a day.
I was driving extra cautiously home yet the rear still let go in style coming off the motorway and it was only quick reactions that saved me, if I hadn't been on track earlier I think I'd have been straight into the armaco.

[mgv8]

As has been posted due to building work roads around there are not drying and the mud is making it like an ice. Why you would not drive taking that into account I dont know!

[rambo19]

Looked into my crystal ball;
Hire car-innit bruv...........

[The Wookie]

jonm01 said:

People really don't understand how much grip you lose when the road temps drop

Indeed, they're crashable in the dry with ESP turned up if the tyres are cold. If it's on standard tyres it will be fairly evil in the low gears in current conditions.

[Rick101]

I would be very surprised if a Speciale was a rental.

I'd hazard a guess a simple case of too much throttle for the conditions.

[TooMany2cvs]

Rick101 said:

I would be very surprised if a Speciale was a rental.

Dealer salesmuppet.

[Rick101]

Is that factual or just a random comment with no basis?

Are you able to tell us which dealers car this is?

[TooMany2cvs]

Rick101 said:

Is that factual or just a random comment with no basis?

It's as much a guess as the rental comments. I neither know nor care which absolute bell-end deserves to have his licence taken from him.