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Man Wins Lambo, Crashes It Right After!

Hippo Machine

Hippo Machine

Because Wet Leaves
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/truck-driver-wins-lamborghini-crashes-hours-later-220724449.html

Thanks to a Utah convenience store's contest, Frito-Lay truck driver David Dopp won another set of wheels last Saturday: this lime-green, 631-hp Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640, worth at least $200,000. Such an awesome car that will...oops, he already wrecked it.Just a few hours after getting the keys to the V-12 powered Italian supercar named for a famed Spanish fighting bull, Dopp took to the roads around his home in Santaquin, Utah. According to In Santaquin News, police were called about dusk after a witness spotted the all-wheel-drive Lambo bass-ackwards in a field, with skidmarks from where it left the road.
Dopp -- who had apparently already taken one call from the local police about takin' it easy before going off-road -- says he was going about 40 mph to 50 mph on a 35-mph road when he hit a patch of what he called black ice or gravel. The police report says the car went over a curb, off the road and 75 feet into the field, calling the accident "speed related."
The Murcielago is now bound for Las Vegas, where mechanics will calculate a repair estimate on the busted oil pan and damaged bumper. Dopp, who has insurance, says the day was "an emotional roller coaster." If you mess with a bull, don't be surprised when you get the horns.
 
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this is like 25 miles from my house. the guy is on one of our local muscle car boards. he plans on fixing then selling. and hell he'll still be up 200k lol
 
Go figure. HAHA If ones normal perspective of acceraration is from a patato chip truck, hopping in a Lambo is just asking for trouble.
 


Hippo Machine said:
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/truck-driver-wins-lamborghini-crashes-hours-later-220724449.html

Thanks to a Utah convenience store's contest, Frito-Lay truck driver David Dopp won another set of wheels last Saturday: this lime-green, 631-hp Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640, worth at least $200,000. Such an awesome car that will...oops, he already wrecked it.Just a few hours after getting the keys to the V-12 powered Italian supercar named for a famed Spanish fighting bull, Dopp took to the roads around his home in Santaquin, Utah. According to In Santaquin News, police were called about dusk after a witness spotted the all-wheel-drive Lambo bass-ackwards in a field, with skidmarks from where it left the road.
Dopp -- who had apparently already taken one call from the local police about takin' it easy before going off-road -- says he was going about 40 mph to 50 mph on a 35-mph road when he hit a patch of what he called black ice or gravel. The police report says the car went over a curb, off the road and 75 feet into the field, calling the accident "speed related."
The Murcielago is now bound for Las Vegas, where mechanics will calculate a repair estimate on the busted oil pan and damaged bumper. Dopp, who has insurance, says the day was "an emotional roller coaster." If you mess with a bull, don't be surprised when you get the horns.
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Dumb. I would have put a car cover on it and started talking to local car clubs and or dealerships about a trade for some cashola.
 
After paying the prize taxes it has to be retained for X amount of time before being sold, which will then subject you to a luxury tax. Taxed twice for 200k in a week.........Sure you can afford that..........
 
All of you who say you wouldn't have taken this thing out and drove the **** out of are liars. Flat out, you all would have.

tapatalking
 


So from the pictures it looks like there is light snow on the ground... Max performance summer tires and the cold/snow/ice... Not smart...
 


How about you get the whole story. Taxes on the car were $100k and he had to put his house up as collateral to even insure it. He totaled it for money, its called insurance fraud and he's probably going to get raped by the government for it. He could have instead donated it to chairty, had the taxes written off, and the charity could have sold it and profited, but instead this all went down...

Here's one of the recent findings about it. Man who crashed Lamborghini six hours after winning it asked Jay Leno to buy it
 
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