Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu

Its all mute,

1) Apparently, "Dietrich" may not be a completely made up person. The person who ran Gizmondo's German operation was a German fellow named Dietrich.

2) Ferrari had license plates indicating it was registered in Manchester, England in 2004. It turns out that one of Gizmondo's development studios is located in Manchester.

3) The driver of the Mercedes SLR which was apparently racing Mr. Eriksson may have been former European managing director of Gizmondo, Carl Freer, who is known to own a Mercedes SLR and is a good friend of Eriksson

4) Stefan Eriksson driving around Beverly Hills a couple of months before the crash. He was driving a black Enzo. The odd thing is that the car has a European license plate. (again) It looks like the black Enzo wasn't properly registered either according to records.

5) It appears Mr Eriksson may have destroyed a car which didn't belong to him. Police said the car was the property of the Bank of Scotland and was in the process of being repossessed at the time of the crash. The word on the street is the Ferrari was obtained through fraudulent financing along with a Mercedes SLR. When the bank found out, Eriksson simply shipped the Ferrari to the United State. The car had a European registration and nothing had been done to make it street legal in California.

6) Police have calculated the official speed of impact at 162 MPH. At that speed I hope he wakes up and smells the coffee that he was given a second chance at life. Hope me makes good in his second chance, I was just in a accident in Sept. hit by a drunk driver doing over 100mph running from the police, when I was hit allmost at a complete stop. He's dead, I got outta it 10 stiches in my eye, 4 broken ribs, colapsed right lung and a 20k medical bill. Sorry I have no compassion nor pity for this guy.

 

ABC7.com is reporting some very interesting information:


MALIBU - The plot continues to thicken today in the mystery surrounding the crash of a $1 million Ferrari on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, a sheriff's sergeant said.
"It's like a James Bond story," said Sgt. Philip Brooks of the Malibu/Lost Hills Station traffic detail. "But I just want to find out who was driving the Ferrari."

Brooks is heading up the investigation to find out if Stefan Eriksson of Bel Air was at the wheel of the red Ferrari Enzo when it crashed into a pole off Pacific Coast Highway on Feb. 21 at an estimated 160 mph.

The impact caused the car to split in half and nearly disintegrate, but Eriksson suffered relatively minor injuries.

A bloodied Eriksson was found in the passenger seat and told authorities that the driver was a German man named Dietrich who fled on foot into the Malibu hills.

"Yesterday Eriksson came to the station with his attorney David Eldon and voluntarily provided a DNA sample taken with a mouth swab," Brooks said. "We want to see if his blood matches the blood in the Ferrari."

Results are expected for a few weeks.

The blood was only found on the driver's side of the car, not the passenger's side.

On the advice of his attorney, Eriksson did not make a statement yesterday.

After the crash, Eriksson told deputies examining the wreckage that he had been a passenger in the Ferrari and there was a street race with a Mercedes.

Brooks said that Eriksson had told deputies of his friend Trevor, who was a passenger in the Mercedes.

"Based on the evidence, we don't believe there was a Mercedes or any race. There was a sole vehicle driving too fast on Pacific Coast Highway," Brooks said.

He has not been able to prove that Eriksson was the driver of that Ferrari.

But he said that "the plot thickened" as the investigation continued.

He said that Trevor -- he has a last name but is not releasing it -- said he was a friend of Eriksson and gave as his home address a boat slip in Marina del Rey.

The boat in that slip was a $14 million yacht, maybe the biggest in the harbor. And the name of the registered owner is Carl Freer.

Eriksson's name was linked by several European newspapers, including the Guardian of London, to Freer for their involvement in the collapse of a prominent video game company in Sweden in which investors lost millions of dollars. Eriksson was reportedly sentenced to a long prison sentence in that case.

Another unnerving development -- Trevor was at the scene of the accident on PCH and asked a good Samaritan to use his cell phone to report the crash, Brooks said.

"An hour later the good Samaritan found a magazine to a 40mm Glock which had been stuffed under the car seat and reported it to us," Brooks said.

Brooks said that investigation also revealed that in September, Eriksson had brought two Ferrari Enzos into the country in San Diego -- one a red one and the other a black one. He also brought in a Mercedes SLR, a $600,000 vehicle.

Brooks said that the red Ferrari and the Mercedes have since been described as stolen, because the initial down payment on them was allegedly a fraudulent one through a company owned by Carl Freer.

And then there's yet another wrinkle, Brooks said.

"At the scene of the accident, two associates of Eriksson showed up flashing badges from Homeland Security. Obviously, at the time the deputies were overwhelmed and didn't check out the badges. Eriksson also produced a business card describing himself as a deputy police commissioner with the San Gabriel Valley Transit," he said.

That entity is actually a privately owned security company, Brooks said. It consists of two vans used for paratransit working out of a garage across the street from the Monrovia Police Department.

The badges were apparently issued by the paratransit company, Brooks said.

Trevor told the deputies that Eriksson was part of the agency's anti- terrorism forces and that he was working on new facial recognition software for Homeland Security, Brooks said.

The sergeant said there was one additional piece of information.

The Ferrari company in Italy told Brooks it could fix the broken red Ferrari for a mere $200,000 to $300,000.

Many people had been upset at the destruction of the million dollar Ferrari, which is regarded as one of the finest race cars ever made.

Brooks told ABC7 that if it is determined that Eriksson was indeed the Ferrari driver, the most he could be charged with is possibly misdemeanor DUI and reckless driving, along with providing false information to authorities.



The best part, a mere $200,000 to $300,000 to fix it.

 

It just keeps getting more and more incredible!

 

This really does seem somewhat like a James Bond movie. Looks like he loves to hide from his problems all over the world. Anyone think he will bounce the US?

I'm just glad the car can be fixed .

One last thing. His story does seem to check out, a little, that is if he has any common sense. He voluntarily provided a DNA sample, which I don't think he would do if it was really him driving.

 

Oh shiit.... I think I've seen that one before..... I'm stunned..

 

sry if this is repost. a video of Stefan Eriksson in his black enzo

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/4A3AC693-F887-4741-B839-F13C61981261.htm

 

I think the most amazing thing, if true, is that Ferrari thinks they can fix it!

 

yes but how much will they charge???

 

And only for that much at that!
How much would the bodyshop charge for this project do you think?

Is Ferrari willing to take losses in persuite of some political agenda or is this simply real cost of building an Enzo and another $400k+ is pure profit factory gets on these cars when selling new?

 

i think its way over $650K due to all the parts at dealer price and not at factory cost!

 

Guess I'll send the hose back
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ROLO,

factory quoted $200k - $300K to fix - post 1152.

Art S.

 

What parts are salvageable on that car?

 

REALLY?? i didn't know

how did they quote if the car is still at impound ??

 

John,

The all important ID tag is salvageable. Ferrari can probobly build up a new car using spares.

Regards,

Art S.

 

ROLO,

Read post 1152 in this thread.

Art S.

 

ahhh okok,thanks!

 

So, they report:

"An hour later the good Samaritan found a magazine to a 40mm Glock which had been stuffed under the car seat and reported it to us," Brooks said.

Under what car seat? The Enzo? Why is "good Samaritan" allowed to poke around Enzo's car seat? If it's under some other car seat then how is this linked to Erikseen's car?

 

No one likes a wiseass...!!!

 

What?

 

It won the 2005 GT series, disguised as a Maser.

 

In all probability the cars probably cost Ferrari less than 300,000 to build initially minus R&D. Your right i think they would save the tag and rebuild a new car..??!!I still think having the words reckless, speeding, red Ferrari, etc splashed on the news 3 time a day is not good for the average Ferrari driver.........

I say deport the bastard and seize his property to be auctioned off for his creditors, all those poor gismundo investor chaps!! Maybe he can be the first pre banned member of F-chat? Or maybe he is lurking already......

On the news last night they were saying after the wreck mysterious men flashing badges were there on the scene asking questions saying they were from the Dept of Homeland Security, the investigators are interested into talking to these men.

MIB?

 

Ferrari Case Takes New Twist With Possible Tie to Bus Agency
The trail leads to a nonprofit operating out of a Monrovia repair shop. More puzzling is its police force and 'anti-terrorism' unit.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
March 3, 2006

As sheriff's detectives investigate last week's crash that destroyed a $1-million Ferrari, they are now looking into an obscure nonprofit organization that provides disabled people with transit in the San Gabriel Valley.

The car's owner, a former video game executive from Sweden, told Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene of the Feb. 21 accident in Malibu that he was deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority's police anti-terrorism unit, detectives said Thursday.

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A few minutes after the crash, two unidentified men arrived at the scene, flashing badges and saying they were from "homeland security," according to Sheriff's Department officials.

Deputies allowed the men into the accident scene, where they spoke to Stefan Eriksson before leaving, Sgt. Phil Brooks said.

Sheriff's officials on Thursday said they now want to question them.

"We would like the public's help with any information about these men or the crash," Brooks said.

They are also looking into the transit organization to see what connection, if any, it has to the case. Brooks said detectives believe the two men from "homeland security" received their badges from the transit authority.

No one was injured when the rare Ferrari Enzo traveling 162 mph smashed into a power pole on Pacific Coast Highway. But the case continues to generate interest because the Ferrari is one of only 400 built, and detectives have struggled to understand what happened.

Eriksson told investigators he was a passenger in the Ferrari and that the driver was a man named Dietrich, who fled from the scene. But officials have been skeptical, noting that Eriksson had a bloody lip and the only blood found was on the driver's side airbag.

On Thursday, Brooks said detectives now doubt initial reports that the Ferrari was racing a Mercedes SLR. Detectives had interviewed a second man who said he was a passenger in a Mercedes SLR that he said was racing the Ferrari at the time.

"There was no Mercedes SLR," Brooks said. "Simply, there was a Ferrari with two people in it. One of these men was driving."

Just as murky is Eriksson's connection to the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority.

The organization is a privately run nonprofit that has agreements with Monrovia and Sierra Madre to provide bus rides for disabled residents.

On its website, the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority lists its address as 148 E. Lemon Ave. in Monrovia. The location is Homer's Auto Service, an auto repair shop.

A transit authority bus was parked in one of its driveways, but nothing on the storefront indicated it was a headquarters for the agency. Inside, a young woman, who declined to give her name, said she was a dispatcher for the transit authority. She telephoned someone she said was an agency official, who declined to be interviewed.

According to the website, the organization also has its own police department with a chief, detectives and marked police cruisers. Sheriff's investigators said Eriksson told deputies that he was deputy commissioner of the department's anti-terrorism unit.

But Monrovia Police Chief Roger Johnson said he found that the department is less than meets the eye.

"I don't know if they have a police department to go with the website," he said.

In a brief interview, transit authority board member Yosuf Maiwandi said Eriksson had helped the police department's anti-terrorism unit with camera technology for the paratransit vehicles.

Eriksson's civil attorney, Ashley Posner, is chairman of the transit authority board. Posner declined to comment; Eriksson's criminal attorney did not return calls seeking comment.

Officials in cities where the agency does business said they didn't know why a small transit authority needs a police department.

"We do not see the need for a ground transportation system for handicapped and disabled folks to have a police agency," Monrovia City Manager Scott Ochoa said. "We warned them that if the police agency operated with them in the city of Monrovia, it would jeopardize their [transit] agreement with us."

It remains unclear how Eriksson, who lives in a gated Bel-Air estate, came to work with the transit agency.

Alan Deal, spokesman for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, said he has never heard of the transit authority's police department. Most police agencies are part of the commission, which governs training standards for officers in the state.

But Deal said some specialized departments are not members, and there are provisions in state public utilities law that allow for transit police agencies to be run by private transit providers.

Sheriff's Sgt. Brooks said Eriksson voluntarily gave a DNA swab, which will be used to determine whether his blood was on the driver's side airbag.

Eriksson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.09% — just over the 0.08% limit — and could face drunk driving charges if he was the driver, Brooks said.

Another mystery is the Glock ammunition magazine found near the crash. Brooks said detectives believe it's connected to the crash but don't know how.

 

Unbelievable.

Once the whole story is sorted out (if ever) they can turn this into a full length movie. Problem is: Nobody would think this could happen in real life.