Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu

I've looked but didn't see this...

"That'll buff right out"

 

We as a majority who drive high performance cars hate speed camers cos they have been proven in most case just a goverment tool trying to make extra revenue from speeding fines. Yes if they are placed around schools then yes but whats the point on putiing them around dual carraige way where the max speed limit is 60mph. U know if its an empty road people are bound to put thier foot down.
And besides they are a nuisance. Do u guys have them in USA.??

 

hahaha...

 

I'd even go so far as to say your dog deserves better than the LA times...

 

Oh good, I thought we might miss out on the classic line.

 

At this time, we in California don't have "speed cameras" but we do have photo enforcement cameras at some traffic intersections (for red-light crazies). Our CHP, Sherriff and Police use radar/laser for speed determination.

 

We got somth for radar guns. The Radar Jammer so any radar comming from either fronnt or back will be diffussed and makes the police radar gun go all crazy.
Yeah Jummping red light is a dangerous thing and people doing that ona busy junction should be caught.
In USA when u get stopped by police do they always do a check on a car and person like they show in flims or do they sometimes let u off by just havning a chat with u.

 

my theory is the Ferrari wasn t in good hands.
Also, the MC Laren helps Mercedes for build this car.
Ferrari built 100% a car.

 

It's pure revenue raising and the sheer number of cameras in place. In London it's virtually impossible to travel more than a few kilometers before passing a speed camera set to trigger at speeds as low as 30 mph. The actual effect of speed camera as an accident deterant has always been strongly debated.

 

Seems this thread has veered off the road!!

Gun's magazine?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari28feb28,0,3986184.story?coll=la-home-headlines

 

Sorry if this is a repost.

More info in the L.A. Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari28feb28,0,3986184.story?coll=
la-home-headlines


The Plot Thickens in Ferrari Crash

A gun's magazine found near the wreckage may be connected to the accident,
and a Scottish bank says it might own the destroyed car.

By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
February 28 2006

The mystery deepened Monday in the case of the puzzling crash last week of a
$1-million Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

Sheriff's detectives said Monday that they believe a gun's magazine
discovered near the wreckage is connected to the crash, and they plan to
interview an unnamed person who they believe was in the car with Swedish
game machine entrepreneur Stefan Eriksson.

The crash has also garnered the attention of a leading Scottish bank, which
has informed sheriff's investigators that it may own the destroyed car. At
the same time, detectives are trying to figure out why another exotic car in
Eriksson's extensive collection, a Mercedes SLR, was listed as stolen by
Scotland Yard in London, said Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks.

The totaled Ferrari was one of two Enzos that Eriksson brought into the
United States from England along with the Mercedes SLR, Brooks said. But
detectives concluded that the totaled vehicle did not have appropriate
papers and was not "street legal" for driving in California, he said.

Detectives have been trying for nearly a week to sort out what exactly
happened last Tuesday morning when Eriksson's Enzo - one of only 400 ever
made - smashed into a telephone pole, totaling the car. Eriksson told
deputies that he was the passenger and that a man he knew only as "Dietrich"
was behind the wheel. But detectives have been openly skeptical of the
story, noting that Eriksson had a bloody lip and that the only blood they
found in the car was on the driver's-side air bag.

Brooks said detectives have called in Eriksson for another interview.
Eriksson has declined through the security guard at his gated Bel-Air estate
to comment. An attorney who has previously represented Eriksson in civil
matters, Ashley Posner, also declined to comment Monday.

But some city leaders in Malibu, where the crash has been the talk of the
town, were less circumspect.

"The guy should have had an IQ test," said Malibu Mayor Pro Tem Ken
Kearsley, who has been following the coverage of the crash with a half-grin.
The driver's IQ "couldn't come up above 60 if he was doing 120 on PCH,"
Kearsley said.

But in fact, Brooks said Monday, the car was traveling 162 mph when it
crashed, far faster than the 120 mph originally believed. The Ferrari, with
just a few inches of undercarriage clearance, hit a bump at a crest in the
road, sending the vehicle airborne and into the power pole, Brooks said.

Brooks said they are investigating whether someone else may have been
present and are trying to determine whether the recovered gun component is
connected to the case. He declined to say more about the find or elaborate
on the status of the Scottish bank and Scotland Yard in the case.

The question of whether Eriksson was the driver is key to the case, Brooks
said. Eriksson's blood-alcohol level was 0.09%, higher than the legal limit
for operating a motor vehicle.

Sheriff's officials are still trying to confirm witness reports that the
Ferrari might have been drag racing with another car, and officials aren't
sure if that's what happened.

Sheriff's officials said Eriksson was an executive with a game company that
attempted to take on Sony and Nintendo, but the firm collapsed last year.

In Malibu, officials said they are not sure what to make of the accident.

Kearsley said the stretch of road was not known for drag racing, but for
run-of-the-mill speeders. He said the Sheriff's Department has had success
for the last year and a half using radar and lasers to catch overzealous
drivers. The lasers are not detectable to drivers, he said.

"It's straight as an arrow where the accident was," he said. "You really
have to go out of your way to hit a telephone pole."

Carol Moss, a longtime Malibu resident, activist and meditation group
leader, said the accident came as no surprise.

"It was horrendous, but Malibu is full of idiots," she said. "There are a
lot of wild cars and irresponsible people. The roads are dangerous. You
always see people with those sorts of cars. You see some wild behavior."

But, in keeping with her Zen frame of mind, Moss extended an olive branch.
"Everyone is welcome to attend the meditation group. Even the drag racer."

 

Hey man, thanks for the post!!

 

Now thats funny.

 

162 mph, he was haulin azz right on!

Sure they can't detect lasers with a escort or V1 keep thinking that.

Can someone please do a burn out in front of that idiot meditation group leader broad Carol Moss house?

 

So, was Dietrich holding the gun on Stephen, or vice versa?

There's a book in this, somewhere...

 

Or at least an episode of "Days of our lives".

 

Movie fantasy plot time...

Stefan is driving, per the blood on the airbag, and he has a gun held on him by the passenger, Dietrich, who's a hitman from the Swedish mafia. He's getting "taken for a ride", because he's stolen the mob's money, but keeps the speed up to avoid getting shot then and there. He knows he's running out of time and options, so he deliberately crashes the car at speed hoping to create an opportunity to escape...

I'd pay a few bucks to see an Enzo (movie stunt double) getting ripped apart in slow motion and find out how this ends

 

...and as it hits the telephone pole the rear end breaks away revealing the Fiero's 6 cylinder engine...

 

I think that there is a misunderstanding here. A "magazine" for a gun was not found. A "gun magazine" was found. Stefan was probably reading his latest copy of "The American Rifleman" while he was driving that morning and became engrossed in the article on the Boys anti-tank rifle. Next thing you know, he's out of control and high-fiving a power pole. Once again, a twist on an old motto proves true:
"Guns don't kill Ferraris, people kill Ferraris."

 

"gun component" - I think they really mean a part of a gun.

 

They found a loaded magazine!

J

 

NEW on KCAL 9 @ 2:00PM reports the Police is expecting Stephen E. to give them the answer this week of whose being the real driver

 

About time...

 

Dr. Evil