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Dec. 4, 2011 11:06pm

Ferraris and Mercedes Trashed in Japanese Megacrash | Chugoku Expressway

It’s been called the “world’s most expensive car crash.” Auto fans across the world are demanding answers to what caused a pile-up on stretch of Japanese highway that laid waste to a small fortune of luxury automobiles — maybe $4 million worth.

Ferraris and Mercedes Trashed in Japanese Megacrash | Chugoku Expressway

A Japanese newscast showed the aftermath of the wreck that claimed 14 vehicles in all, including 8 ferraris, 3 Mercedes, a Lamborghini, a Skyline, and a Prius that no one cares about:

Jalopnik reports that a group of foreign car enthusiasts were heading to Hiroshima from Kyushu when one of the drivers lost control trying to overtake a car on a wet, curved part of China Road in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ferrari driver reportedly hit the median and created a reaction that caused the other cars in the lineup to crash.

Ferraris and Mercedes Trashed in Japanese Megacrash | Chugoku Expressway

AP

According to the Telegraph, the massive crash took place Sunday on the Chugoku Expressway, in southwest Japan.Β No one suffered serious injuries, and the accident shut down the road for six hours as cleanup crews tried to untangle the mess.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:54am

    Is that all they have is red??? Strange!

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:03am

      Most of them ferraris (8 crashed there) are sold in red, it’s a default color. You can get also dark red (still red), then black, blue (2 hues), yellow and white, but chicks usually ask if it is a fake. So, you can’t err with red.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:04am

      why are there so many of those overly expensive cars on one highway at the same time that close to eachother? it seems statistically impossible unless everyone in that nation is just filthy stinking rich… which is probably where all of our money goes…

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:06am

      o i see, a car show… my bad… welp. it kinda sucks that those cars can’t handle wet pavement… lol

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:07am

      o wait, did anyone notice the pavement is dry? how odd..

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:33am

      Nice catch. Road is dry as a bone, even under the cars (video).

      Maybe the translation was garbled… should have been “8 ferrari drivers wet their pants after reckless driving caused them to crash.”

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:42am

      Kibsey – you seem a bit slow here. Is this an aberration or business as normal for ya?

      1. It wasn’t a car show. READ. It was a group of foreign car enthusiasts traveling TO a meet.

      2. They are red because 80%+ of all Ferrari’s are sold in the traditional “Ferrari Rossa”. Google can help here.

      3. You seem to suspect the cars crashed ‘on wet pavement’ because the cars, not the drivers, are ill equipped to handle wet pavement. Where on earth did you grasp that one out of?

      4. You seem to find it “odd” (your word) the pavement was dry at the time the photo was taken … apparently in an out-of-ash extrapolation that ‘dry now means dry then’ (at the time of the accident). Are you aware that weather changes, precipitation comes and then goes, Global Warming becomes a fad and then fades, and in fact that even your waistline changes and is not immutable?

      Cheers!

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    • Cat
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:27am

      Darn those pesky squirrels

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      Cat  
    • old white guy
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:29am

      all those great cars and such little driving ability.

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:40am

      .
      It was either Godzilla or Mothrah……………….

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    • Speak without Fear
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:57am

      Sports car generally tend to be red. That is just silly. Ferrari is known for Ferrari Red.

      Unless you custom order…….I doubt you will find many GM car colors.

      Good grief.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:14am

      Gallardo!

      ***DROOL***

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      V-MAN MACE  
    • The_Hut_In_Co
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:17am

      Spankda,

      I was thinkin maybe Rodan!

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    • AZindependent
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:38am

      So the used car market is about to be “flooded” with salvage title Ferraris? Bet the guy who caused the crash gets kicked out of the club.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:39am

      @AZindependent, yeah, right after he gets his a$$ kicked.

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    • cvs334
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:42am

      Italian Sports cars are traditionally red since that’s the racing color of Italy.
      German = white … and silver or “raw”
      British = “British Racing” Green
      USA = Blue with White Stripes or vice versa
      France = Blue … etc.
      Interesting Egypt is pale violet … kinda cool;-)

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    • kcares
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:44am

      I wonder why they are red too.

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    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:52am

      Was the Prius Red?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:56am

      “Darn those pesky squirrels”
      @CAT
      I was thinking it was probably the Prius that caused it, by going too slow.

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    • Spirit 72
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:01am

      .
      Lords a leapin
      and a partridge in a pear tree !!!

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:06am

      VOTER… give Kibsey a break. Besides, he has a valid point about the roads not being wet. Maybe they were, but is sure doesn’t look that way. One thing is for certain, it wasn’t raining when the cars were on the road… they are spotless wrecks.

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      Anti_Spock  
    • Tom K
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:16am

      @ABBYGIRL1994: It’s “Mid-Life Crisis Red ” of course.

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    • N5DVC
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Apparently there is no Japanese word for “Sports Car”…

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      N5DVC  
    • SLOWBIDEN
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:21pm

      And they say that” orientals can’t drive” is a sterotype

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      SLOWBIDEN  
    • K Chad Roberts
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:45pm

      Bashing countries like UK, Canada and Japan (Germany and South Korea to a lesser extent) for “stealing our money” is kinda pathetic. They are very close allies, and are friends of the US. Their success is good for us.

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      K Chad Roberts  
    • Buckybarnes
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:23pm

      They should have bought a sti or a R8-quatro . idots need to buy better cars. or for that cash you could buy almost the whole rally ford race teams cars. ford rockstar car is only 650,000 dollors and holds the indoor land speed record bc of the world class grip . !

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    • Eddie
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:40pm

      It’s a Ferrari! I’d take one in plaid if I could get one!

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:47pm

      I can’t believe CBS news ran this on the evening news… a day AFTER it was posted on the BLAZE.

      Talk about irrelevant. CBS must be relying on rest home audiences for ratings.

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      Anti_Spock  
    • trebor2009
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 4:52am

      Years ago, all countries had international racing colours. Red was Italy, Green was Britain, USA was white with blue stripes running lengthwise, hood to trunk, Germany was white, then silver. This gave way in the 1960-70′s as corporate sponsors came on board. So red Ferraris are a traditional racing color going back to the birth of auto racing. You can clique on international auto racing colourss for the updated color schemes.

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    • trebor2009
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 4:56am

      Red is or was the International racing color of Italy, England was green, USA white with 2 blue stripes, Germany white then silver. Since 1960 ish corporate sponsors messed that up. You can search international auto racing colours.

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  • HardworkUSA
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:51am

    They forget to drive the Nissan GTRs…this could have been prevented.

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  • AnAmerican111
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:22am

    Those darn 1% ers!…………………………………..

    Almost brings tears to my eyes to see those vehicles trashed!………

    Funny thing! Could not care less about the 99% ers if they would have been in the middle of the highway!

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:29am

      I bet they just left the Prius there on the side of the road and let someone steal it. The Towing outfits showing up at that mess probaly fought over the expensive cars while none of them would even look at the Prius. And I don’t blame them.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:53am

      Funny thing, my immediate thought was not for the expensive cars, but hoping that everyone was alright REGARDLESS of who they were or what they stood for politically. Here I thought I was supposed to be the one without any moral backbone.

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  • Gold Coin & Economic News
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:21am

    Kinda looks like what Obama is doing to our economy.
    http://www.congressinsiders.com/2011/11/congressional-inside-trader-nancy-pelosi-is-a-liar/

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  • lonestarbill
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:21am

    I hope they are keeping those hari kari pig stickers away from the “at fault” driver’s insurance agent. These drivers would have made great Kamikazes.

    Gee, do you think these guys were racing? What are the odds of all those high dollar cars coming together (literally) on the same stretch of road. Stupid is as stupid does.

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  • Netsurfer2
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:17am

    Isn’t it interesting that when you drive the freeway all the people getting on always drive slower than the freeway speed limit??? Or sometimes you always have someone tailgating you (driving to close) and you just wish you could slam on your brakes for the fun of it???

    Maybe AL Gore was one of them….. in his little smart car??? LOL

    They can afford it if they can drive such!

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  • Swordpoint
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:11am

    There is a Japanese automobile insurance agent considering Seppuku right about now…

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:07am

      They adopted self-defenestration lately. Not everyone inherited seppuku toolset, and a jump is a lot less painful, done right.

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  • Pigpen
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:09am

    Duh, they weren’t racing. They were driving responsibly when one of the cars was making a legal and safe pass, the communist, Red China, wet road surface reached up and swatted all of the cars off the road. Yep, that’s what must have happened. Duh, nope, no road racing was happening here. The car “enthusiasts” appreciated these high-end performance machines solely for their fine craftsmanship. No danger at all when a bunch of them start out for a nice Sunday drive in the country.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:57am

      The Chinese built roads in Japan? I did not know that. Thank you for that history lesson.

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  • dobbiedo
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:01am

    Proves you don’t have to be smart to be rich.

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  • welloddyfriggindah
    Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:00am

    Uhhh…dumb…odd, but dumb…won’t read. A tragedy to me is when PEOPLE are hurt, not cars, although the ‘Prius’ part is kinda funny.

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  • schroeder123
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:57pm

    I would have been there… if all the right things happened, and I was worth more than I was worth.. I’d of done the same thing… taking a little chance and knowing I have the best car for safety. and could afford the best insurance. Make sense ??? Ha you know you’d do it too !!

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  • Californiasodbuster
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:42pm

    Sorry for being un PC, and am not one to stereotype people, but a 1970 chevy impala just about left me a stain in the road with my harley 30 years ago, driven by a carload of ornamentals, maybe Asians do not know how to drive?

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  • BrianA
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:42pm

    The skyline is a nissan for those who may not know.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:37pm

    I swear My Wife wasn’t in japan at the time.

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  • dad2noah
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:34pm

    Blame George W. Bush. It must be his fault, somehow…

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    dad2noah  
  • realistic_01
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:31pm

    Funny. Americans buy luxury Japanese cars and the Japanese buy German and Italian.

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  • Bubba777
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:25pm

    They are not driving drunk, they are Japanese.

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  • amabokcuf
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:16pm

    My clutch slips…

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    amabokcuf  
  • PeachyinGA
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:15pm

    Daytona 500 multi-car accidents probably involve more expensive cars than these.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:13pm

    OOOh, I just read a skyline bit it, I owned one when I lived in Okinawa, fantastic car.

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  • garyM
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12pm

    Looks like the Japanese like red vehicles!

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:59am

      Most of them ferraris are sold red, it’s a default color. You can get also dark red, black, blue (2 hues), yellow and white, but chicks usually ask if it is a fake. So, you can’t err with red.

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  • garyM
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12pm

    Now we know where all the money is!

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    garyM  
    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:18pm

      Yes, the car repair buisness.

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    • Cat
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:26am

      Ferraris are assembled with a high level of scrutiny, including the engine block, which is checked by x-ray after casting, then melted down and recast
      No two cars are really alike and most parts are not quickly interchangeable
      Putting one back together is difficult and the vehicle quality may be the same level as the factory quality depending on the builders in a topnotch frame off restore
      Doubt any of these owners will opt for a rebuild though
      Most Ferrari owners feel more comfortable with factory virgins

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

    …………………..and a partridge in a pear tree.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

    Yeah…, ‘tragic’.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:08pm

    EU Prophecy!

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