In a blow to the pride taken by Italy’s police in their two most glamorous patrol vehicles, one of the cars was clipped by a Seat as the more modest car was edging its way out of a petrol station near Cremona. The impact sent the exotic police car flying into a line of parked cars.
The accident happened near the northern Italian town of Cremona where it was on display at a student jobs fair. Reports say the car swerved to avoid another vehicle which crossed into its path, ploughing into two stationary cars. It was damaged beyond repair. One of the two officers in the vehicle at the time of the incident suffered a broken rib, the other received bruises.
The Lamborghini car, painted in the Italian police force’s blue and white colours, was a gift to the force from the carmakers in 2004. The six-speed luxury vehicle with a 500-horsepower engine is designed to go from zero to 100km/h (60mph) in four seconds. Lamborghini donated the two cars, capable of reaching speeds of more than 200mph and accelerating from 0-62mph in just four seconds, to the police in 2004. They have since been used to help patrol the country’s roads where speeding motorists contribute to almost 5,000 road deaths a year.
December’s supercar competition has now closed, somebody won one of the cars below:
Ferrari F430 Coupe
Lamborghini LP560-4 Coupe
Audi R8 and Range Rover Sport 3.0 TDV6 SE
Porsche Panamera Turbo + £15,000
Ferrari California
Artega GT + £20,000
Aston Martin DB9 Coupe
Mercedes CL63 AMG
KTM X BOW + £50,000
or of course take just the cash £90,000
The winner can choose any one of them. We have had over 300 winners over the last 10 years and time and again feedback has been: it takes only 2 minutes to buy a ticket but much longer to decide which car to have!
To view this month’s line up and enter January’s supercar competition click below:
Tags: Crash, italy, lamborghini, police
