Remember being a little kid and taking all your coolest hot-wheels and putting them all on the top of the ramp at the same time and pushing them all off knowing there was going to be a huge pile-up at the bottom? The thrill was watching them all crash and if the crash was not “cool” enough you do it again until they all tumble wildly at the same time.
Well, in Japan this is basically what happened - except these weren’t hot-wheels. These were actual SuperCars.
Vehicles involved included 8 Ferraris, 3 Mercedes-Benz and a Lamborghini as well as two more, with damage put at 300m yen and some cars being beyond repair.
Police say they believe the accident occurred when the driver of one of the Ferraris tried to change lanes and hit the central reservation. He spun back across the motorway, and the other cars collided while trying to avoid hitting his car.
“I’ve never seen such a thing,” Eiichiro Kamitani, the highway patrol lieutenant, said by telephone. “Ferraris rarely travel in such large numbers.”
Lt Kamitani said 10 people — five men and five women — sustained slight injuries, in the accident.
“It is highly possible that they were driving in couples.
“Speeding was possible but we have yet to determine the exact cause.” The National
Ten drivers were reportedly taken to hospital after the incident but no-one was seriously hurt.
The accident is understood to have happened after one of the Ferrari drivers lost control on a wet road.
He is thought to have hit the central reservation and rebounded into the path of the oncoming cars.
The supercars were being driven from Hiroshima to Kyushu along the China Road.
The road had to be closed for six hours while clean-up crews removed the wreckage. Mirror.co.uk
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