Posted on 05/04/2025 10:12:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A driver wrecked a 2023 Lamborghini by flipping the sports car on Highway 9 in the Santa Cruz area Sunday.
The California Highway Patrol responded to the crash at 12:14 p.m. Occupants of the car suffered minor injuries in the crash.
CHP was unable to provide KRON4 with additional information about the crash. However, CHP’s social media post suggests that speed may have been a factor.
“CHP officers used a patrol vehicle to push the Lambo off the roadway, preventing further crashes,” the CHP’s Santa Cruz office shared on social media. “This crash was preventable. Please slow down! Highway 9 is not a racetrack.”
CHP did not provide the model of the Lamborghini. However, based on photos of the crash, the car appears to be a Huracán STO. Edmunds values the car at roughly $400,000.
“… you have some awesome roads out there.”
Lol…quick thinking!
About 15 years ago, we were driving on US-40 across Colorado. I told my wife she needn’t fear cops because they were all on I-70 to the south. Not long after that, a cop going the other way clocked her doing 80. He told her the same thing about animals coming out at dusk. She got a ticket. She still reminds me of the advice I gave her!
During my tour in Germany from 77 to 81, I probably drove nearly 50K miles at speeds in excess of 100 MPH on the Autobahn. It was awesome! I felt safer doing that than driving nowadays in Texas (and elsewhere) as the traffic laws were enforced in Germany.
Personally, I don't think you're very wise at all. Like I said, to each his own.
‘nother from 40 yrs back:
The ‘guard rail’ was/is a reinforced concrete center divide.
He T boned it at 70 from Summit Rd.
Other sources indicated a highly altered blood chemistry.
Easy your ambiguous genitalia is showing
In reality I didn’t care. From what I could tell, my state doesn’t have points reciprocity with Montana so it wouldn’t have mattered anyway so I figured I’d take a shot.
And their roads are excellent.
That was about ten years ago. You could drive for many miles without seeing another car on either side of the interstate.
We drove through Montana last fall and the traffic was noticeably heavier. You would really stand out at 110 mph.
Montana has way too many refugees from other states now.
Are there really that many people on this forum that don't get that reference?
Naaaaw. No way. I thought flipping was a feature. /s
Excellent! And you just KNOW that there’s a significant number of leftists who fall for this kind of argument every single time. “Who really needs a 30 round clip? Except of course for the military. And the police. In fact, with the military and police to protect us, why does anyone really need any kind of guy at all?”
P.S. I drive at or below the speed limit around town, or in heavy traffic, and am on High Alert in those settings. I also own a vehicle that will take me to just around 190, if the manufacturer is right.
Just drive across Kansas at that speed. You would be blubbering by the end.
You wouldn’t want to go further than you would be comfortable walking back.
Idiot thought he was hot shit and could handle the curves up there in a Lambo.
9 is dangerous. Beautiful, but dangerous to morons. You’d be surprised how often I was pulling young kids out of ditches(when they were lucky, not so lucky was off the edge...) because they were in little ricers and pretending they were in fast and furious....
Damn right on that. I’ve seen some idiots on the straight points near the lookouts hit at least 90.
Wives have long memories sometimes.
Let it ride.
I thought Spicoli’s dad was a jeweler.
Anybody who has lived in California very long knows one thing when you get feral people in a car bigger ferial thangs happen.
For some reason most people here go nuts when behind a wheel of a car note all the accidents and hit and runs in the state.
With rain the odds increases
“don’t get that reference?”
Count me in that group. I don’t get it.
I hike up to Windy Hill from Portola Valley. You can sit on the top (are the rare no-wind day) and watch the speed along for great distances.
Every year or two, somebody buys the farm up there.
“Wives have long memories sometimes. Let it ride.”
LOL...yes. But it works both ways!
Sweet car
Absolutely wrong. The total hours wasted by unnecessarily increased travel times would amount to a great many human lifetimes. Hours of life lost are lost, whether they're lost a few at a time with each journey or all at once in a wreck.
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