It’s always interesting to read the “other news” sections of the big news sites, some real gems of stories can come up. The latest one that I read today was about a twenty year old who decided to drive his dad’s car. Nothing too exciting about that, except that it was a 275 grand super car (a Gumpert Apollo) and he completely wrote it off in a crash in Germany.
Apparently, he was driving near Hamburg and lost control, span off and crashed the car. There was no chance of salvaging the wreckage (understandable when you see the photos) but luckily no one was injured either. There’s no official word on whether he was speeding yet, but it seems unlikely that you can lose control of a supercar without going over the limit.
I’d love to know how he explained that one to his dad. I’m sure the car has some form of insurance but I have no idea how rare it was – it may be that the dad can’t get a new model of the car. It’s also got to be very embarrassing for the sun to have the story all over news sites. This is definitely one mistake he’ll never be allowed to forget!
Fortunately I can say that I never wrote off my parent’s car or even crashed it but I know people who have. It doesn’t usually go down very well with the parents!