Tuesday 14th September 2004

Porsches pulverised by train

Porkers in truck hit by US freight train

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A clutch of classic Porsches got mashed on Sunday, the Associated Press reports, when the car carrier transporting them was hit by a train.

The accident happened when the carrier got stuck on a high-centred level crossing. The driver tried to extract it but a freight train struck the carrier at 3:45 p.m. in Ventura County, USA. Lt. David Wilson from the Ventura police department said the driver escaped without injury, but that the vintage Porsches “are close to totalled, if not totalled. The train centre-punched the trailer carrying the cars and split the trailer in half, and the cars went flying,” he said.

[RB Will]

if he was stuck there for a while, long enough to try getting the truck out of the way why not just get the bloody cars off?

[Wintermute]

[Glenn McMenamin]

I think we can safely say that prices for 356's have gone up a bit in the USA now !!!


Horrible sight though !!!!

[anonymous-user]

I don't think that looks as bad as I'd imagined from the story. It's going to take a lot of money and some damn hard restoration work, but they're salvageable. Maybe if they were shopping trollies they'd be totalled, but I can't see them writing those off.

[steven356]

The cars were owned by a company called European Collectables and according to a chap, who'd been in and asked, they were all write-offs. They are now only good for spares, not that much could be salavaged.

Steven

[TonyToniTone]

Oh nasty, they all looked mint as well..

[markmullen]

I reckon they'll T-Cut out

Sad to see such nice motors destroyed.