Wednesday 7 October 2009

I Pretty Much Like Most Ferraris,

but not when they are like this! this was once a £110,000 Ferrari 360 Modena, but being built of almost entirely aluminum and carbon fibre, it made it extremely lightweight but highly flammable, luckily the occupants, the driver and his passenger survived the high speed crash which reduced it to a pile of debris, they lost control of the car on a country bend close to Seaham, County Durham, on Sunday evening at about 9pm, the Ferrari flipped over more than once as it careered over a hedgerow before finally landing in a crop field and bursting into flames, and had it not been for the quick-thinking of a driver who saw the crash they would almost certainly have perished, so I guess the structure must have been fairly secure, the 32-year-old driver, from South Hetton, County Durham, was taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital for treatment for a broken right ankle, His passenger, a 37-year-old woman from nearby Murton, was air-lifted to the hospital by police helicopter with multiple pelvic fractures and a broken left hip, Her condition is not life threatening, well trying to look at what was left before the fire took hold they were certainly lucky!

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