Rather expensive fender bender.

Or maybe a little more than a fender bender.

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I love how the text is all about the young driver in his 220mph super car losing control when the jackhole in the Mazda clearly pulled right into the middle of his lane leaving him nowhere to go but thru the gap.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

I'm sure that is just a summary of the incident report from an excitable London Police Officer...

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Well it was pretty clear he was going 217mph when he hit that car.

Both drivers weren't looking where they were going. You can hear that the lambo driver is on the gas until just a fraction of a second before impact.

I like how all the comments are blaming the Lambo driver despite the dumbass in the Mazda pulling out in front of him.

Allow me to mention how freaking awesome that Lambo is. And the blonde aint bad either.

Tough to tell what really happened from that rather limited camera angle. I'm inclined to say that neither party is really innocent.

My gut reaction is that the Lambo is more at fault. Looks like the Mazda was trying to creep out into a low-speed area with poor visibility (traffic the other way is stopped). The Lambo sure looks like they're gunning it to squeek by before the Mazda can merge.

Looking closely, looks like the Lambo is not on the brakes until after the crash. The lights do not seem to be on even when it is hopping over the Mazda's tire, and only appear to come on after the impact.

Did the Lambo have running lights on? I could understand how seeing a satin black car that is 3' off the ground might be kinda difficult. Probably looks like pavement from the comparatively towering crossover.

Part of the reason I prefer economy car based sports cars over supercars is that a supercar seems like a very impractical thing to be driving around in a city. Where as a rally car for the street seems like the perfect weapon.

If the Aventador had been going at a speed reasonable for the situation, i.e. 20-25 mph there would have been plenty of time to stop. crowded downtown streets can be hard to see around corners, hence the Mazda creeping out slowly. I seriously doubt they did that to purposefully wreck the Lamborghini.

I'm guessing the reason why there is at least 3-4 people with cameras filming and people standing around in Tue area is because that jack wagon had been flying up and down that street a couple times already. Nothing like a hooning moron with more money than brains for talent to wreck an awesome car and come damn close to killing several people.

In reply to Datsun1500:

You don't get all four wheels off the ground going 15 mph

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to Datsun1500: You don't get all four wheels off the ground going 15 mph

... but you don't have to be doing 217 either.

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to Datsun1500: You don't get all four wheels off the ground going 15 mph

It depends entirely on how steep the ramp is.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Yep, if I had to guess, 45-55.....which should still be middle of 1st in the lambo. Just because there is alot of noise doesn't mean it is going fast.

There is actually a whole "thing" surrounding that incident.

It's related to the trend for rich middle eastern young men shipping their super cars over to England / London for the summer and parading / goofing around and partying. They tend to blast down streets, many times within the speed limit (just accelerating very quickly) sometimes not. Either way, making a lot of noise, which some do not appreciate in the "fancy" neighborhood.

From what I have read, the Lambo was not speeding and the Mazda is almost certainly at fault (at least according to English traffic laws).

Here is a link to a story done on the trend. Pretty even handed presentation (it clearly is not going out of it's way to vilify the drivers).

Millionaire Boy Racers of London

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to Datsun1500: You don't get all four wheels off the ground going 15 mph

It depends entirely on how steep the ramp is.

Exactly. 15 mph is MORE than enough to get a car airborne in the right (wrong?) circumstances. I'm going to say the Mazda was at fault, looks like they pulled out in front of the Lambo. I also lawled at how an obviously uninjured flatbiller boy couldn't get out and help his lady friend, a passerby had to do it.

You would have to watch the video report / documentary, but if you are referring to the comments from locals, it's essentially resentment of rich foreign kids coming over and racing around their streets.

It's a combination of nationalism, resentment of entitled kids, English economic depression, and good old fashioned English "harumphery"

I have to say, it is a bit amazing there are not more crashes when you combine young men, 600 hp cars, and narrow streets. I think it might point to the fact that the drivers may not be quite as reckless as they appear to be though.

Datsun1500 wrote: In reply to Lancer007: There is really no way to tell what speed he was going, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't that fast. If the people that have the cameras were there to film him "showing off" there would be better footage. The Mazda pulled out on him, that is the reason for the accident.

Exactly. Also if you look down the street after the wreck there is a bus sitting not far from the turn in the left lane so I don't know that the Lambo would have seen the Mazda until the last second anyway.

Datsun1500 wrote: If this was a wreck between 2 regular cars no one would have an issue with the one driver. Put him in a Lamborghini, and he must be doing something wrong. Why?

The Lamborghini was scary looking and black, perhaps it is really an "assault" vehicle?

Ban it.

aircooled wrote: There is actually a whole "thing" surrounding that incident. It's related to the trend for rich middle eastern young men shipping their super cars over to England / London for the summer and parading / goofing around and partying. They tend to blast down streets, many times within the speed limit (just accelerating very quickly) sometimes not. Either way, making a lot of noise, which some do not appreciate in the "fancy" neighborhood. From what I have read, the Lambo was not speeding and the Mazda is almost certainly at fault (at least according to English traffic laws). Here is a link to a story done on the trend. Pretty even handed presentation (it clearly is not going out of it's way to vilify the drivers). Millionaire Boy Racers of London

I've seen that story too, so that was my first assumption.

At least there was not secondary "Italian Exotic Self-Immolation".

Appleseed wrote: Ban it.

For the children.

In reply to aircooled:

"harumphery" is my new favorite word.

pretty sure it's easy to get a lambo off the ground if it's front wheel rides right up over the front wheel of the mazda, who was totally at fault. my eye isn't calibrated like a radar gun but that lambo wasn't doing anywhere near 45-50mph that someone said they were probably doing.