Picture the scenario – you wake up in your salubrious surroundings, have nothing to do and decide to take a jaunt in your shining, sexy prancing horse complete with its flowing curves and delicious exhaust note. Even better, you meet up with some like-minded and (presumably) wealthy compatriots who also are nestled in sumptuous surroundings being teased and flirted with by a throbbing around them… One beast was particularly Bullish, one in shimmering white, all jostling for attention except a lowly green wallflower – but she can keep going and going without much energy.

Then the banging started, the whole group.

A Lamborghini, three Mercedes-Benz, eight (!) Ferraris including a rare white Testarossa and a lowly Toyota Prius were all involved in a huge pile up that is understood to been have caused by one of the vehicles changing lanes and hitting the side barrier. This has been described as the most expensive sports car pile up history. Reports have indicated that the total cost of the claim will reach £2.6 million as total losses which, of course, will not replace the vehicles. The accident occurred in Japan when a group of like-minded enthusiasts set off for a day to Hiroshima, only to wreck the entire entourage.

Sorting out the resulting insurance issues would be a logistical nightmare. No doubt multiple insurers are involved, there would be disputes over estimations, disputes over costs, quantifying injuries, keeping legal expenses from escalating. This is assuming that the Japanese system works in identical fashion to the market within the UK. Most people who compare cheap car insurance even 1 day car insurance will almost certainly not get “agreed value policies” An agreed value policy guarantees the replacement of a vehicle should a total loss or theft occur. These are usually promised when a policy is taken out and would be subject to at least six photo’s of the vehicle and potentially an engineers report or car club report. Then, and only then will an insurer pay out the promised value – normally only vehicles over ten years old would qualify in any event. In the absence of this, the current market value would be paid.

Then there are the excesses and on vehicles like this it would not be unusual to see a £2500 excess….

Talk about Gone in Sixty Seconds…..