Car with top speed of 200mph was one of two donated to police
The Italian police Lamborghini Gallardo that crashed into parked cars. Photograph: youreporter.itWhen the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals.
A team of elite drivers was trained to chase down speeding motorists and deliver urgently-needed transplant organs in the futuristic vehicles, capable of reaching more than 200mph.
What they apparently were not prepared for was a distracted motorist who pulled out of a petrol station without looking.
Today, a bandaged and bruised police driver may have had a tough time explaining how he managed to write off one of the force’s prized Lamborghinis when he rammed it so hard into a line of parked cars that one of the stationary vehicles ended up on the police car’s roof.
According to the police, the crash was caused by the driver of a slow-moving Seat Ibiza who emerged without looking from a service station, clipping the Lamborghini and sending the vehicle swerving into the parked cars.
The front end of the Lamborghini was crushed in the accident, near Cremona, and the driver and a passenger were injured, although not seriously.
The Lamborghini Gallardo, worth £130,000 and capable of reaching 62mph in four seconds, was one of a pair donated by the Italian manufacturer to the police to do battle on Italy’s roads, where 1 million motorists are injured annually and 4,731 died last year.
Both cars include transmitters to send images back to HQ, a defibrillator for accidents and a fridge for transporting donor organs. The two officers were returning from a convention in Cremona, where they had been addressed a student audience on road safety
they cannot have been short of volunteers
where they had been addressed a student audience on road safety
CMON RLY?
So who got the ticket? lol.
frah-gee-lay
Must be Italian
They really didnt think this would happen?
How many do they have total? I thought they only had one but after reading that I get the impression they have more…?
I remember a thread about this and a video on NYSpeed when they first started using them.
Does the article say a pair?
says a “pair”
No big loss, after actualy driving a lambo for a couple days i really think they suck. Fast, fun, but total pice of crap.
Where did you drive one for a couple days?
Its no 86 g-body
did ya rent one for a weekend in vegas or something?
+karma
LOL
lol
Gotta say, I smirked at that, haha.
:bigclap:
They don’t have a car like that insured?
^c’mon
lol.
lol at g-body.
im sure it was insured.