Michael B. Jordan Tears Apart His Ferrari In Crash With Parked Kia

Jalopnik ^ | Dec 4, 2023 | By Lawrence Hodge

[Red Badger]

The actor slammed his 812 Superfast into a Kia Niro over the weekend.

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Being mistaken for a celebrity is not unheard of in LA, especially when you and that celebrity both have exquisitely ripped bods. Case in point, I’ve been mistaken for Michael B. Jordan a number of times and, usually, I’d gladly trade places with the actor, but maybe not on Sunday when he crashed a nearly half a million dollar Ferrari into a parked car.

TMZ reports that Jordan was in Hollywood around 11:30 on December 3. He was driving his blue $429,000 Ferrari 812 Superfast until he slammed into a Kia Niro that was parked alongside the street. Luckily, according to TMZ, other than the Kia and Ferrari, there were no other injuries or damage.

The LAPD responded and found no signs of Michael being impaired by drugs or alcohol. Cops did not perform a field sobriety test.

There were no injuries or damage to property, other than the Kia and the Ferrari. LAPD told Michael to fill out a police report online.

Sources who were on the scene told TMZ that the LAPD questioned Jordan, wanting to know just what the hell would cause him to crash into a parked car. Jordan offered no explanation though. TMZ even reached out to Jordan’s team for a comment on the situation and got nothing. Jordan stayed on the scene, with his back turned the whole time. I’m sure he was pissed or embarrassed.

Sadly though it looks as both the 812 and the Niro are totaled.

[Chode]

thx

$23k fixable car v $150000 totaled car, it is to laugh...

[jjotto]

Ferrari 812 new price tag would be $450k or more.

[Chode]

LOL thx, i have no idea, it was just a figurative number...

but that’s worse 8^)

[Spktyr]

That’s because weight is the enemy of performance, and higher end vehicles use as light of materials as they can. Occupant safety is mostly a function of the passenger cell on such vehicles, not the fenders or other bodywork. Though that said, they shed a lot of impact energy through that same bodywork disintegrating.

Mind you, they *usually* do better in high speed and other crashes in terms of occupant safety than your average family sedan, despite ‘looking’ worse. That’s not new - go look at Barbra Mandrell’s crash in the 80s, where her Jaguar sedan went head on at highway speed versus a GM pickup that crossed the median. She walked away, the driver of the ‘big strong sturdy truck’ ended up with the engine in his lap and died, despite the Jag being smaller and actually looking like it came off worse in terms of body damage.

[dragnet2]

Ah, head-on collisions involving low sport car type vehicles VS taller pickup trucks often result in the lower sport car going underneath the pickup, as seen below.

More than a few of the collisions often resulted in fatalities to the lower sport car vehicles, including the occupants of the lower vehicle being beheaded.

In this scenario, if I have a choice of being in a head-on, I'd opt for being in a higher 3/4 ton truck any day of the week, as opposed to being in a low profile vehicle.

[Spktyr]

Barbra Mandrell’s Jag XJ was *way* lower than the truck that hit her. Again, it got messed up but she walked away and the other guy died. That said, this is a matter of geometry, not materials in terms of who ends up on top of who.

[dragnet2]

That’s a one off.

In a head-on with a lower vehicle, such as a Vet, Ferrari, Jag etc, they have much greater chances of going under a higher vehicle such as a pickup. This is pretty basic stuff. Same with low vehicles going under tractor trailers and even guard rails etc. It gets real nasty.