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We barely had time to do some follow-up checks regarding the runaway Toyota Prius in San Diego a couple of days when reports began circulating that another Prius – this time from the other side of the country in New York – figured in another unintended acceleration, only this time, the 56-year old driver didn’t have the assistance of the California Highway Patrol so she ended up crashing into a stone wall.

Fortunately, the incident happened just outside her home when after pulling out of her driveway, the car began to accelerate across the street straight into the awaiting wall. According to reports, the lady was lucky enough to escape the crash without any major injuries, but we all know that it could’ve been much worse.

That’s precisely why these defects with Toyota vehicles is getting way too out of hand and if the Japanese company doesn’t do anything about it soon – they don’t have a fix for the ‘entrapped’ accelerator pedals – there’s a chance that this may not be the last time we’re going to report a crash of this nature in the future.

We may have an obligation to report incidents of this nature, but – for the sake of those involved in these accidents – we prefer to not do it this often.

Another Toyota Prius accelerates out of control, crashes into a stone wall originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:30 EST.

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We’ve been eulogizing a lot of cars lately and while it’s painful for us to look at these wrecked machines – let alone write about them – we just can’t help ourselves. A car crash, especially of the supercar variety, is about as big a news to us as space exploration is to NASA.

That being said, this latest car crash we’ve unearthed involves a mint green – and finely-tuned up – BMW E36 M3 that was the pride and joy of the owner (his name is Paul, so we’ve been told). In fact, Paul loved it so much that he spent nearly four years working on it and making it look like as attention-grabbing as any BMW E36 we’ve seen in recent times.

But as is the case with most car crashes, Paul’s BMW E36 ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time after a distracted driver lost control of his car and plowed into the back of the E36, leaving the car’s rear end in a total state of shambles.

We feel really bad for Paul. We really do. But if there’s any consolation, we really give you a ton of props for what you did with your car – that is until someone decided to give it a facelift it never needed.

Distracted driver crashes into souped-up BMW E36 M3 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 26 February 2010 12:30 EST.

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This is what driving while intoxicated does to you and for the most part, you probably won’t be as fortunate as this blubbering moron.

After having one too many cold ones, the driver of this Chevrolet Corvette was traveling at speeds of over 150 mph when he suddenly swerved across the road, hitting an Infiniti G35 in the process before taking a dive into the Boisa Chica Wetlands.

Both the Corvette and the G35 ended up taking a dive in the swamp but fortunately, the drivers managed to escape the accident without any major injuries. Despite having all his limbs virtually intact, the driver of the Corvette, 52-year old Melvin Brown, won’t be as lucky escaping the strong
arm of the law as he was charged with driving under the influence.

People always remind us that drinking under the influence is never a good idea, yet somehow people still seem to abide by their own rules. It’s too bad that accidents like this need to happen before some people begin smarting up.

Corvette ZR1 crashes into Infiniti G35 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 25 February 2010 07:00 EST.

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Car crashes are never a pretty sight but we can imagine just how gut-wrenching it must be for someone to watch his beloved sports car burn before his very eyes.

So to the man who owns this Ferrari 360 Modena that inexplicably caught fire at the 101 over the weekend, we feel for you buddy.

No details have been released regarding the cause of the fire so it’s hard to speculate as to how it ended up burning itself to a heap. Whatever the case may be, it’s still a little hard for us to stomach a car as beautiful as a 360 suffer such a stomach-churning fate.

Ferrari 360 Modena burns along California highway originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:04 EST.

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The Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV is limited to only 350 units. And when we are talking about a third crash at only few months after its official launch, well, that’s bad.

There are no official details on what it really happened in here, but it looks pretty bad. So, if you have details on this please share with us!

According to the guy that took this photos, car’s series number is 000/350. Taking this under consideration this might be a car crashed during a test drive. But we can not tell for sure!

Third Murcielago LP 670-4 SV crashed originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 22 February 2010 15:30 EST.

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It didn’t take long for Lotus F1 to crash into the Formula One scene, did it?

Days after signaling their return with the unveiling of the new Lotus T127, Lotus ended up crashing one of their cars into a tire wall during a recent testing session at Jerez. The culprit was former McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen, who seems to be building a growing reputation of a practice-day crasher in his short time in Formula One.

What was intriguing about the whole episode wasn’t the crash itself but the way Lotus is trying to keep the T127 shielded from any curious ‘bird watchers’ in the area. As soon as Kovalainen crashed his car, engineers from Lotus quickly ran down to the scene to put drapes on the car and to look for as many loose parts of the T127 before throwing fabric barricades over their garage.

It seems interesting that Lotus would react this way after having one of their cars crash into a tire wall. Maybe they’re not ready to divulge their trade secrets just yet, or maybe because, in light of the increasing occurrences of ‘spying’ among teams, they’re just trying to keep the poking noses out of their business.
Either way, it’s a pretty ominous start for the boys in green and yellow. Here’s to hoping that they don’t wreck anymore cars until the season starts.

Lotus crashes first T127 F1 car during Jerez testing originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 19 February 2010 09:00 EST.

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There aren’t that many Tesla Roadsters out there – so far, there are around 940 units all over the world – so if one of them ends up in an accident, then you can bet that it’s going to make some news.

Ever the benevolent purveyors of exotic car crashes; our buddies over at Wrecked Exotics recently unearthed two Tesla Roadster crashes that happened just recently. Though the accidents weren’t related, the two accidents brings the total of Tesla Roadster car crashes, at least as far as Wrecked Exotics is concerned, to six, with one of them being a test vehicle that met an untimely demise even before production for the car began.

As for the two newest members of the Tesla Roadster car crash club, we’re relieved to say that both cars didn’t suffer the same metal-crunching fate that other sports cars seem to routinely find themselves in.

The black 2008 Roadster accident occurred in Orlando after the driver lost control of the car after which, it clipped a concrete divider resulting in the front left side of the car to need some facial reconstructive surgery.

As for the orange 2008 Roadster that figured into an accident of its own, it was merely a minor fender-bender mishap involving the over-eager owner of the Roadster. Despite the relatively subdued crash, the orange Roadster got introduced into the world of car crashes pretty early since the car – with a total mileage of just under 3,000 miles – is still what many consider as ‘just out of the box’.

It’s never a good thing for any of us to be reporting on car crashes of any sort. But these two Tesla Roadster crashes somehow alleviates our burden because the crashes, though expensive to repair, as we can imagine, didn’t come at the cost of a life.

Two Tesla Roadsters end up in separate accidents originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 10:00 EST.

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In the pantheon of all-time wasted car crashes, you can’t get any rarer than a Ferrari and a Lamborghini crashing into each other. While those incidences don’t occur too often, they, unfortunately still do, as evidenced by this Lamborghini Murcielago crashing into a Ferrari F430 during a VIP wedding reception for one of the ruling political parties in the town of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

While the cause of the accident remains unclear, both drivers managed to escape the crash without any major injuries, although their bruised egos could have led to the rather heated incident after the crash.

Witnesses said that the two drivers involved in the crash – one of which, is a hitman-for-hire, by the way – got into a scuffle with some of the folks who were trying to take photos of the crash. Apparently, these two guys didn’t take too kindly to the folks trying to capture their embarrassing crash on film.

In any case, it’s a shame that two perfectly awesome supercars ended up crashing unceremoniously, courtesy of these two fellows who seem to have taken the phrase ‘wedding crashers’ to an entirely new level.

Ferrari F430 and Lamborghini Murcielago crashed at a wedding reception originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 06:48 EST.

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Charlie Sheen woke up this morning with a Mercedes missing from his garage, but to his good fortune, he wasn’t around to see what became of his luxury ride.

The actor’s Mercedes was stolen at his home in Sherman Oaks, California, but the thief, apparently, had something different in store for his newly-boosted car, flying it over a cliff along Mulholland Drive, you know, for kicks.

To his surprise, Sheen was woken up by a call from Mercedes telling him that his car was involved in an accident. Amazingly, the perpetrator escaped from the scene before the LAPD showed up, which is now in hot pursuit of the thief.

It’s unclear to us just how Charlie Sheen could’ve jut left the keys of his Mercedes inside the car, making it a relatively easy target for the unknown booster. Then again, Sheen can afford to buy a replacement with just a snap of a finger so we suspect that he won’t lose a ton of sleep over it.

Just a reminder to Mr. Sheen, though. Next time, bring your keys inside your house.

Video: Charlie Sheen’s Mercedes gets boosted; ends up flying over a cliff originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 11 February 2010 13:00 EST.

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There are car crashes that can be attributed to drivers going a little bit too fast with their cars while there are those that you can blame entirely on unforeseen circumstances.

Then there are crashes like this one.

We’re foggy on the details as to how this Ferrari F430 Spider ended up like this but from what we’ve heard, it apparently fell off from the top level of a delivery truck while it was being transported at a local luxury car dealership just outside of Boston.

There’s really nothing much to say except that whatever caused this F430 Spyder to fall from a delivery truck can be traced to just one thing – someone wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention in strapping this baby down. And yes, when it involves supercars like this one, it hurts a little more than if this were just any other car.

Ferrari F430 Spider falls off delivery truck originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:00 EST.

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