What I cannot figure is how the idiot crashed: the Coast Highway location shown in the LAT article is darn near flat, and is dead straight. Been by there dozens of times. Sounds like another fool with far more money than talent to drive a fantastic car.
There's an easy answer to how he wrecked it on that stretch.
Sven blew a 0.09 b/a level after the cops arrived and after his post-wreck adrenaline kick had sponged up who knows how much of the booze in his system.
And you've gotta figure it was at least half an hour between the cops having arrived and their having tested him after the "name, rank, serial number and are you hurt sir?" routine too. So there ya' go.
"Dead" straight, it is. In more ways than one.
I just watched the video and it is as you described--straight and darn near flat.
I believe this adage is appropriate: ‘Just because a man drives a Ferrari it does not mean he is a Ferrari driver.’
He was drunk and going about 160.