I just came across this on another blog, and I thought it was pretty interesting. This car- a French made Bugatti Veyron, was involved in a horrific accident which destroyed the car. The insurance loss tops £ 800,000 ($ 1.6 million).
Businessman Kumar Soni is facing the prospect of writing off his £830,000 Bugatti supercar after a horrific accident saw it spin out of control, crash into a vehicle driven by a pregnant woman and smash into a hedgerow.
The French made model crashed on Sunday afternoon near the £3 million Surrey home of the car’s 41-year-old owner.
Yesterday insurance assessors were left examining what remained of the supercar – capable of reaching a top speed of 253 mph – and deciding whether the vehicle could be repaired or is destined for the breakers’ yard.
It is not known who was behind the wheel at the time of the crash.But neighbours of the wealthy Soni family claiming the accident had caused a furious row between Kumar Soni and his younger brother 39-year-old Ajay, prompting speculation the owner of the rare car was not the driver.
It is thought the vehicle was only delivered to the family home last week.
Photographs taken immediately after Sunday’s accident show Ajay Soni inspecting damage to the car along with a family friend.
The car left the road on a 40mph stretch of the B375 road near Chertsey, Surrey shortly after 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
Locals told yesterday how the low slung car had been driving repeatedly through Shepperton before heading for the B road as a heavy rainstorm began.
The sleek Bugatti Veyron – one of only a dozen such models in the UK – had been hand-built at the company’s French base in Alsace and is as powerful as a Formula One car.
The eight litre 1,000 horsepower engine beneath the bonnet is capable of taking the vehicle from 0-60 in just 2.5 seconds.
Source- Auto Blog Show
