eplants02

Hey all,
Found this under the news section of Yahoo!:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/scp_v3/...&ch=68276&src=

all i gotta say..is wat a moron and poor car

JohnCL

Crosspost

Forsale99C2808k

What a shame, I would love to see the M-Benz he was racing against.

Vik888

verdict = SLR wins

A_B

Chris 45971

Bad news. Hopefully, no one was hurt.

ruykava

the irony, the irony.

the driver of the Enzo is the former executive of Gizmondo (NOT Gizmodo the website), which has filed for bankruptcy just recently, to no one's surprise. he was apparently part of the swedish mafia although this remains "unconfirmed". anyway, poetic justice for a bunch of people who were wasting investor's money.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/f...-ferrari-enzo/

kenstudios

The bank was trying to repo.....

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/

SoCalCLK

Apparently, the person who claimed to be the "Passenger" was actually the Driver!!

The Police became suspicious when they noticed only the Driver's side airbag was deployed.

This guy at least has some *****, and really has what he says he has, unlike many others on this forum!!

C240-Merc

This happened about 50 yards from my girlfriend's home.

blume

and then???

ClayJ

If he was actually going 162, I'm impressed with both the Enzo, and the fact that the guy survived.....

Vik888

Clearly Darwinism has failed us here

ClayJ

The guy's not out of the woods yet!

c240 kid

yeah, i heard about that.. im suprised the guy made it out alive..

but i guess a half a million can REALLY save your life...

egxpimp

if he was really going 162mph....i wonder how he felt the next day...pretty beat up im sure.

Vik888

He's an alcoholic .. he probably feels like that all the time.

lisamcgu

This seems to be the definitive site for the most updated info on this crash, although they don't have some of the pics shown on these forums - you guys, where do you get this stuff?

Side note - I pass that part of Malibu often and had to on that day after the crash late morning and then again late afternoon when I saw people crawling on the hills with piles of black parts in their hands. Hello ebay, except according to the link above, the ebay hose sell was shut down by ebay -

"PARTS BEING AUCTIONED ON EBAY :
(note: ebay has removed this item)
40cm lenght hose - this was picked up after all the debris had been cleared out. "

BklynBenz

OT: you got your car from ray catena? thats where ive gotten all my recent cars from. whos your sales guy over there? did you check out rays personal collection upstairs including the two gullwings?

Highend

haha, glad you're contributing to this topic.

Anyone else catch that website that shows him driving his other Black Enzo up and down Rodeo? Man, he had life by the ***** at one point, now his life has crashed and burned along with his Enzo.

c240 kid

yeah, my mom is a general sales manager there and rays personal secretary and what not. yeah i got my c240 from there..

the top salesman at our dealership are doug wells, who is becoming a manager.. derrick fox, ken giordano.. and others. if you want a full list, i can get one for you.

MBZFAN55

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines

From the Los Angeles Times
Video May Hold Clues to PCH Wreck

L.A. County sheriff's officials say two men who crashed a rare Ferrari in Malibu last month may have been filming the incident.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson
Times Staff Writers

March 16, 2006

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's investigation into a mysterious crash that destroyed a rare $1-million Ferrari in Malibu last month is now focusing on a videotape that was purportedly shot from inside the vehicle at the time of the accident, according to sources close to the case.

The sources said that Ferrari owner Stefan Eriksson and the other man in the car, identified by authorities as Trevor Karney, had a video camera rolling as they raced on Pacific Coast Highway on the morning of Feb. 21 at speeds in excess of 162 mph.

Deputies who arrived at the scene did not recover any video equipment. But sources said detectives were later told that the high-speed driving was taped. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation.

The revelation is the latest twist in a crash that has prompted both an accident investigation and a probe by the Sheriff's Department's Homeland Security Division.

Although no one was injured in the crash, the investigation has generated significant attention because of the strange circumstances and the fact that it destroyed one of only 400 Enzo Ferraris ever made.

Eriksson, a former European video game executive, told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the driver and that another man, named Dietrich, was behind the wheel. Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene.

But detectives have always been skeptical of his version of events. Investigators have taken a swab of Eriksson's saliva to match his DNA against blood found on the driver's side air bag of the Ferrari.

Eriksson also told deputies that he was a deputy commissioner of the police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley.

A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the crash scene, identified themselves as homeland security officers and spoke to Eriksson at length before leaving.

Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks said Wednesday that a few weeks before the accident, Eriksson was pulled over in West Hollywood without a driver's license.

At that time he told officers that he was a deputy police commissioner of the anti-terrorism unit of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority and showed a badge, Brooks said.

Before coming to the U.S., Eriksson lived in England. According to Noel Hogan, a British private investigator, formerly with Scotland Yard, Eriksson once told him that he was a police officer. Hogan had been trying to recover a Mercedes SLR worth more than $450,000 that had been reported stolen in England and which Eriksson had in his possession.

Officials at the transit agency, which provides transportation for the disabled and elderly from Monrovia, said Eriksson was given the title of deputy police commissioner after undergoing a background check and offering the agency free video security cameras for its five buses.

Eriksson left video game machine manufacturer Gizmondo last fall after a Swedish newspaper printed allegations of his criminal past.

Brooks said Swedish police have informed sheriff's investigators that Eriksson served five years in prison in the early 1990s for a counterfeiting-related crime.

Gizmondo, which hoped to compete with Sony and Nintendo gaming machines, earlier this year filed for bankruptcy amid more than $200 million in debts.

An animated re-creation of the crash made available to The Times on Thursday shows the driver of the Ferrari losing control, veering right off the road and then traveling a considerable distance before hitting a power pole and splitting the sports car in half. "Anyone in that was lucky to survive," Brooks said.

Brooks said officials were aware that a Scottish bank has claimed that it owns the Ferrari.

Eriksson could face several charges if deputies determine he was driving, including reckless driving, driving while intoxicated and lying to investigators. In the aftermath of the crash, his blood-alcohol level was found to be 0.09%, above the 0.08% legal limit. Eriksson could not be reached for comment.

ClayJ

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah Baby! More stupid than violating the law? Film yourself doing it!!!!

Works everytime...for the prosecution....

phonetics

i am not sure if i am sick, but after reading stories like supercar get crashed badly, i feel happy about this...

ptoro01

I so wish I was the first person at that accident with a pickup truck and an engine hoist. Im sure that engine is still salvageable and some other nice parts. If ferrari can rebuild that to good as new for about 300k, im sure they could spare the engine for a really cool project of mine.
Pete