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Old 10-29-08, 10:20 AM
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A Young man wrecked a Ferrari worth $250,000, but escaped serious injury, when he crashed into a Stobie pole at Walkerville, in Adelaide.

The driver and his passenger have been taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital for treatment after the accident just before noon, AdelaideNow reports.

Both men walked from the wreckage, leaving the expensive five-year-old 360 Modena model literally wrapped around the pole on Lansdowne Ave.

The car, valued at around $250,000, crashed a few minutes after residents saw it "zinging" past their homes at high speed.

"I was outside my house talking and we heard something fly up and it was this black Ferrari," said Vlado, who did not give his surname.

"It sounded just like, `zing, zing", as it want past."

Vlado said he walked "two blocks" around the corner when he saw a fire truck arrive to see the Ferrari smashed against the pole.

He said the men were "lucky to be alive".

"The Stobie split the car in two and it's basically up where the gear stick should be," he said




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they walked away, wow
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poor car. One of my favorite Ferrari of all time.
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Wow, that's one serious crash, glad they walked away from it, but man they must have been moving.....

PS I wonder if it was their car?
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Holy crap.. I love that car. How sad

Damn they are lucky to have walked away.
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Lucky to be alive let alone walking away...
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Old 10-29-08, 01:15 PM
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pole position.. hah
goes to show how out of control these high performance vehicles must be for them to just go and get pinned in a pole
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just goes to show you that just because you can afford these babies doesn't mean you can drive them.

It's a shame it got wrecked. tsk tsk tsk

Those guys are effing lucky I wasn't there to kick they @$$ for doing that to that car!
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Old 10-30-08, 08:27 PM
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Default Yikes....check this out

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,236...009760,00.html


Somebody had to die in this. He had to
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he must have been going pretty darn fast
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Modena is not worth 250k anymore. You can get one for around 100k on ebay.
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I am glad they survived, but poor car

*** I merged the new post with more pics in the link ***
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Originally Posted by NINEZeRO
Modena is not worth 250k anymore. You can get one for around 100k on ebay.
its in aussie dollars
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Originally Posted by NINEZeRO
Modena is not worth 250k anymore. You can get one for around 100k on ebay.

was thinking the same thing. 250,000 for 5-year old 360
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