456 GT head-on crash

[Jonty355]

Saw this mentioned on a thread in general gassing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_tnlD1RtA&fea...

[MJK 24]

You'd like to think that for the safety of everyone, the Ferrari driver was banned from holding a drivers licence for a very long time. He/she could have killed someone.

[Jonty355]

Probably not, and whats worse is that the report says he got out with minor injuries, where as the innocent driver in the small car suffered broken bones etc.

[sambaman]

always the case.......the innocent get injured......

Jonty355 said:

Probably not, and whats worse is that the report says he got out with minor injuries, where as the innocent driver in the small car suffered broken bones etc.

[MJK 24]

Jonty355 said:

Probably not, and whats worse is that the report says he got out with minor injuries, where as the innocent driver in the small car suffered broken bones etc.

Always the way. I couldn't identify the little car but it's probably all of 900kgs without any safety features vs 1,500kgs plus of a very strong bodyshell with a large V12 up front to take the brunt of any impact.

[andrew]

it's not obvious why the ferrari span
was it nudged by a mclaren ?

[clarkmagpie]

andrew said:

it's not obvious why the ferrari span
was it nudged by a mclaren ?

[xr287]

MJK 24 said:

You'd like to think that for the safety of everyone, the Ferrari driver was banned from holding a drivers licence for a very long time. He/she could have killed someone.

They might have just swerved to avoid the child that ran in to road just out of shot though?

[MJK 24]

xr287 said:

They might have just swerved to avoid the child that ran in to road just out of shot though?

If he/she wasn't travelling twice as fast as the other drivers on the road appear to be, perhaps he/she would have been able to stop in a controlled fashion for the child instead of getting a very good handling car completely sideways in a residential area?

To my eyes at least, it looks like the poor Ferrari was being driven by an idiot. Hopefully he/she learnt a lesson and is now a little more responsible. There's a time and a place...

[DayTrader]

I love the political he/she correctness.

Does anyone really think a woman was driving?

[CIE560]

DayTrader said:

I love the political he/she correctness.

Does anyone really think a woman was driving?

Yeah, she was attempting to park at the time off the accident.

[Sesto]

Pretty damn good parking technique . Coming off the other car like that to ricochet into final parking position must take great skill and judgement . . Did anyone notice the debris on the road before fezzer come into view . I think something happened and fezzer was avoiding an incident .

CIE560 said:

DayTrader said:

I love the political he/she correctness.

Does anyone really think a woman was driving?

Yeah, she was attempting to park at the time off the accident.

[mybrainhurts]

How the hell did she do that...?

[Beefmeister]

What confuses me about that accident is how the driver of the small car didn't avoid the oncoming 456 until the very last second:



That 456 would have been coming towards them going all squirrely for a fair old time - I would guess they weren't paying too much attention to the road...