So Speedy, So Exclusive, So Expensive, So Totaled [Enzo Ferrari crash - Uppsala Mafia associate]

Los Angeles Times ^ | February 22, 2006 | Bob Pool

[calcowgirl]

It was a SigAlert made for Malibu.

A red Ferrari Enzo — one of only 400 ever made and worth more than $1 million — broke apart Tuesday when it crested a hill on Pacific Coast Highway going 120 mph and slammed into a power pole.

The driver jumped out of the wreckage and ran into the canyon above, evading a three-hour search by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department helicopter and a mountain search-and-rescue team.

The crash did not result in serious injuries. But it sent shockwaves through both the tabloid and exotic car worlds as one group wondered if the driver was a celebrity and the other mourned the loss of a hand-built car revered by many as a work of art.

But by day's end the tabloids were disappointed to learn that the demolished car had been owned by a Swedish millionaire without a Screen Actors Guild card.

Sheriff's investigators identified him as 44-year-old Stefan Eriksson, a Bel-Air resident. Officials are trying to determine whether he is the noted Swedish game designer whose firm, perhaps not surprisingly, was involved with car-racing themed video games.

Authorities said Eriksson said he was a passenger in the Ferrari, which he said was being driven by a German acquaintance he knew only as Dietrich.

Eriksson told authorities that "Dietrich" ran up a hill toward the canyon road and disappeared. Brooks said detectives are far from convinced they have the whole story.

Eriksson "had a .09 blood-alcohol level, but if he's a passenger, that's OK," Brooks said. "But he had a bloody lip, and only the air bag on the driver's side had blood on it. The passenger-side air bag did not. My Scooby-Doo detectives are looking closely into that.

[Rakkasan1]

[19th LA Inf]

the only blood in the car was on the driver's side air bag

Can you spell DNA?

[al baby]

All i know is i would want to be sober to drive that it would be a rush beyond belief Id want to feel every bit of it and remember it as well

[al baby]

deoxyribonucleic acid

[SES1066]

Thanks, thats one Ferrari that I can pass on my Cannondale bike. I'll bet he is self-insured, because he is just the type that the actuaries say "accident waiting to happen"! I wonder what else is in his various garages?

[TeddyCon]

That's what I meant. Lol. One tends to sober up faster albeit temporarily in a tense situation.

[TeddyCon]

My pleasure SES1066.

[al baby]

I wonder what else is in his various garages



hopefully a chauffeur he gonna need one soon

[pageonetoo]

"you put the chicky in the pot!"

[Celtjew Libertarian]

"He destroyed one of the finest cars on Earth, maybe the finest. It's like taking a Van Gogh painting and burning it,"

Except a Van Gogh painting isn't designed to go 200 MPH.

[Leo Farnsworth]

I believe this adage is appropriate: ‘Just because a man drives a Ferrari it does not mean he is a Ferrari driver.’

[doorgunner69]

‘Just because a man drives a Ferrari it does not mean he is a Ferrari driver.’

So true. There is almost an inverse relationship to reflex and skill level vs. ability to buy/own expensive cars. Not always, but in my observation, very typical.

[lwd]

I remember hearing when the Enzo first came out that in order for Ferrari to sell you one, you had to already own a Ferrari.

So I guess this guy will just have to tool around in his old 308 or whatever....

[Pelham]

He was drunk and going about 160.

[Pelham]

One of my clients drives one of these, in silver-gray. I looked at it today in a whole new light. I still find it hard to believe it's worth a million bucks.