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High-speed pursuits

Two Italian policemen were left somewhat red-faced after being involved in an accident when returning from a convention where they had been speaking to students about road safety. The policemen crashed their Lamborghini high-speed pursuit vehicle, one two donated by the manufacturer to the police, into a rather more mundane Seat Ibiza. During the incident the Lamborghini slammed into a line of parked cars, with one of the vehicles then ending up on the roof of the high performance pursuit car. The front of
February 23, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
Two Italian policemen were left somewhat red-faced after being involved in an accident when returning from a convention where they had been speaking to students about road safety. The policemen crashed their 3066 Lamborghini high-speed pursuit vehicle, one two donated by the manufacturer to the police, into a rather more mundane 3068 Seat Ibiza. During the incident the Lamborghini slammed into a line of parked cars, with one of the vehicles then ending up on the roof of the high performance pursuit car. The front of the Lamborghini was crushed in the incident although the occupants were not seriously hurt. Nor was the driver of the Seat seriously injured. The Seat had apparently pulled out from a service station into the path of the powerful police patrol car. However the size of the impact suggests that the police vehicle may have been travelling at a speed higher than is usual on the section of road.

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