Posted on Sunday 4 March 2007
Update: More details surrounding the Veyron crash have emerged, including the identity of the driver and its unfortunate owner. The Mail reports the vehicle was registered to 41-year old businessman Kumar Soni, but it’s believed the person behind the wheel at the time of the accident was his younger brother, 39-year old Ajay Soni. The crash occurred near the owner’s £3 million Surrey home in the UK, and neighbors claim it had caused a heated argument between the two brothers.
It’s also thought that the £830,000 supercar was only delivered last week and is one of only a dozen such models in the UK. Onlookers claim the car was travelling in excess of 100mph before the driver lost control, hit a Vauxhall Astra driven by a seven-month pregnant woman, and spun three times before crashing into trees beside the road.
Local police have taken details, and the driver is currently being investigated for driving without due care and attention. Fortunately, no-one was injured during the accident. The Soni family run several car hire and property companies based in London.
Previous: We’ve seen plenty of smashed Ferrari Enzos but this is the first time we’ve across images of a wrecked Bugatti Veyron. Information is sketchy, but it’s thought that a pool of water on the road caused the AWD supercar to lose traction and then spin out of control, sending it head first into a ditch near Shepperton in the UK. Most of the cabin section and engine compartment look relatively undamaged, however, it’s hard to determine what internal damage to the drivetrain there is if any. Hopefully the driver got out unscathed.
According to the source, this is the first time a private customer has actually crashed a Veyron. Engineers reportedly destroyed two prototype examples during testing, which was part of the reason for the long delays during the vehicle’s development.
[Source: SportBilen]
don’t worry, that will buff out.
hahaha
“Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it. “
just need some elbow grease and a bank account the size of belgium. there, all fixed.
You boys never cease to amaze me.
Wow, what a horrible day for that guy.
Some old fart might have the money, but not the sklls obviously.
WTF!
These Veyrons are sold at a huge loss, they are unique in many ways… a tribute to our top end technologies… they will never be reproduced.
Whoever crashed this car deserves a bullet.
I agree, a man who crush a Veyron deserves slow and unpleasant punishment…
Well done that man, horrid little car gets bent. Proof that money doesn’t buy taste, and that driving skills aren’t celestial endowed upon the rich.
Haha I hope he gets a 1.0l VW polo while it’s in the garage.
He used the key to turn the spoiler off and lower it to the ground so yeah he was definetly trying to speed and water would throw off his traction since he did not have a lot of downforce. So he probably hydroplaned till he crashed.
To hydroplane until he crashed, he would have to have been carrying a lot of speed down what, from the image looks like a ‘b’ road. Therefore the driver, like so many of this ilk, was clearly driving carelessly in the conditions.
Besides, the veyron is a misengineered and badly designed car anyway. Then again that’s what you get when you get a team of marketing types to design the looks first, and then shoehorn the engine and mechanics in afterwards which is actually the only interesting thing about this car.
That’ll buff right out
OH OH BETTER GET MAYCO !!!
Sure came through the crash a lot better than all the split-in-half Enzos we’ve seen the last year or two.
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/WAV_files/cartoon_WAV_files/haha.wav
there’s one born every minute
The key doesnt turn off the spoiler… it turns on the speed supporting equipment, ie, the better suspension tuning, the spoiler adjusts out farther the faster you go for added downforce and upon hard braking it deploys out enough to act as a wind brake of sorts to slow the car down faster….
“turning the key on” would only have caused that accident if it was attributed to going above the top speed of the non super sport or whatever they call it mode.
I feel like crying
One less possbile chance of me owning one
At least he had the balls to give it some, and he can get one, he can get another. I’m just glad it looks like the driver walked away.
My Punto wouldnt have done that
Just hope he didn’t go from this to riding a wheelchair. Anyone can hydroplane.
OH paaa leeezzzzz, Anyone deranged enough to spend a mil. on a car deserves to crash it.. That actually is pretty funny , almost unbelievable , considering most of us could live the rest of our lives on what this person paid for this car. I want an anarchy burger ,hold the gov.
Damn good show I say. Dont care how fast it is but it has to be one of the ugliest cars ever! More crashes less veyrons I say. Hideous!
Wow thats a serious shame in my books,
Karl - everything you mentioned if true except that the second key down by the door seal does infact lock the spoiler down for high speed “slipperyness” the car creates enough downforce with its aero that having the spoiler up just becomes a restriction..
:)
Pedro
Note for Ciaran,
Sir you sure do not have a clue…. Marketing types indeed… You do indeed know nothing about the development of this, this feat of 21st century engineering… Your lack of information knows no bounds..
@Ciaran
If you knew anything about the car you wouldn’t say that.
A bit of TCut should get that out!!
Ciaran, why do you say that…
i heard they lost a test driver in a prototype, and when they couldnt get the aero to work they, had to redesign the whole front end..
even though its heavy and techy, and probably the biggest bitch of a car in the world to work on, to say its not a masterpeice is incredulous, please explain why you say this…
:)
Ciaran is a moron.
But I say good job, dude (I would say that, being from California).
My guess is that far too many of these cars are bought, placed in a garage, and then started every year or so by the butler to keep the cobwebs from becoming permanent. Those are the real idiots…
ste - yep, every marvel of the 21st century in the Veyron… except light weight materials. It’s nearly 5 times heavier than the DP1, and that will be quicker in the vast majority of situations, both on road and on track. Also cheaper and more fun, plus if a rich toff were to buy one he’d sh*t himself driving it. Me wants…
Death comes to all those that wait… I guess he couldnt wait…
Really doesn’t look too bad. I wouldn’t expect repairs to cost more than most small cars. He’ll be back on the road in now time!
Ciaran there are more hops, skips and jumps in your comment than I’ve seen in a long time. You’re misinformed and should go and find out the real evolution of the car in question.
That car went out doing what it was made for, going fast. Nothing is more sickening than a rich guy with a sweet ride that just lets it rot. Who cares if you wreck it, they’re made to drive.
Main thing is the drivers alive.
Now for the car, what a machine just pure animal, my mazda is faster in a straight line (up to 300 anyway) but its no veyron. As said b4 its good to see it gets/got driven not just left to rot. If you can afford to buy one you can afford to fix it.
Ciaran, shouldnt you be doing your homework or something….farken kids and they’re dribble.
aweh naaiers
First Bugatti Veyron crash
We’ve seen plenty of smashed Ferrari Enzos but this is the first time we’ve across images of a wrecked Bugatti Veyron. Information is sketchy, but it’s thought that a pool of water on the road caused the AWD supercar to lose traction and then spi…
I cannot believe most of these comments?? Dumb and dumber!! Having owned fast performance cars with so called best tyres, to four wheel drives with chunky tyres , the only thing which won`T Aquaplane is a Boat which is how i get my kicks now….. Dah!!
Ciaran obviously would`nt have crashed in this situation in his Fulli Sik Hyundai with a 5in dump pipe because he seems to be expert in everything ( dumb and dumber) .Having owned high performance cars (with so called best tyres ) doing a bit of club racing , to Four wheel drives (with chunky tyres) the only man made machine which won`t AQUAPLANE is a boat which how i get my kicks now!! Dah!!
Cool. If I had one, I would probably crash it, but what the hell, at least I would be trying to ‘use’ it.
Cars (and bikes) should be driven to their potential - and if they are specifically designed for performance, hey, explore the boundaries! As one very great driver once said “you never really know where the limit is until you go past it.” Here, here, say I.
If you hit standing water in anything you are liable to aquaplane, with tyres the width of this little baby this will just magnify the problem. But hey, shit happens and if you can afford to drive it you can probably afford to bend it.
Straighten it out and get it back out!
It looks repairable. If the driver has the money to buy this thing, chances are he has the money to fix it.
50 - 1 = 49 Veyrons left!
Would all Passengers please place their heads between their legs and kiss their arse good bye. oh and the bumper and the spoiler and the …………………………………
What a shame, to see a piece of engineering prowess in a pittiful condition, i do feel for the person driving.
When you have a super sprint / super car and this happens you can only feel sorry.
But he survived!!!! which most people have neglected to comment.
And i would rather have a bugatti, than a mass produce tin can!
Now theres a challenge for the top gear gang, Try fixing that with parts from halfords [ I don’t think so[
yes it may be fixable and yes it will be costly, but where exactly do you take it to be fixed? these cars are made from scratch by hand. repairs… well they don’t even have any tools to repair it so they will have to determine the problem and then machine tools to work on the car. it would ahve been nice to have deployable parachutes to stop him before he hit the chutes. what were the manufaturers thinking?
Loved the Spiccoli quote. Crocodile tears, I’m an Enzo man
In reply to where do you take it to be fixed, surely you would send it back to Bugatti who wopuld charge you another million to put it right?!
“1 down 49 to go”
FATE
“Now we gotta take apart the block and replace those piston rings you just fried”
He was obviously driving too fast for the road conditions!!! I hope he learned that money doesn’t buy miracle-machines!!!
was it jeremy clarkson?
Wow sucks for you! but if you had this one!? you will have another one.
“Ugly…misengineered and badly designed”
What the hell are you idiots on about? The first car to break 253mph is misengineered? Well get cracking on something better then smart guy. Sounds like an awful lot of jealous people on here, commenting on how funny it is that a rich guy crashed an expensive car.
Obviously, all of you pro race drivers would have clearly not crashed in that situation, because you’re all so damned smug and brilliant.
I hear that this was a rental car for a day…!?!?!
I wonder whether he declined the CDW.
Doing 100mph in a 40 mph through roadworks in the rain - driving a hire car………………..
Just goes to show - not only doesnt money buy taste, it doesnt buy brains.
The insurer will go bankrupt!! Wonder who is the insurer?
Karl, you are incorrect about the key in the sill. Turning it doesn’t make the rear spoiler come out, it makes it go IN. The suspension lowers and the wing stays in for improved drag co-effiecency, this setting is supposedly for top speed runs.
Tris, your Mazda is faster in a straight line than a Veyron? Soooo… It can do 0-60 in less than 2.5″? Should I also ask you about your in-gear acceleration compared to the Veyron’s?
twidget, the car is made of carbon fibre. What exactly do you mean when you say “except light weight materials”? Do you even know why the car is so heavy?
Ciaran, your bullshit is even worse than the other two I mentioned.
How old are you people, 12?
Several news reports mention the driver of the other car was seven months pregnant. Hope mother and baby are ok. I would like to express my unrelenting anger towards the idiot who should have taken it on a trackday rather than give yet more ammunition to the anti-car lobbyists. Whether the Bugatti can be fixed or not is now irrelevant. From here on in every time a Bugatti comes up in conversation this crash will get presented as evidence why high performance cars should be banned from the road.
yemsky you right dude that guy who crashed it wasn’t the owner, I read in the paper “the sun” he was renting the car for about £20k.
What an idiot, driving a car like that at speed on a country road where the limit is only 60!
who got that egg credit card cus that cleaver dumb balance is restored
gutted….. it will still sell 4 half a mill!!!
egg comment..genius.
to aquaplane a veryon= BIG SPEED.
big speed in a veyron= A SNEEZE AWAY.
so maybe he didnt realise he had hit 165mph……
I hope the driver of the astra is ok, the same cannot be said for that asian twat who should have suffered the same fate as his car…
I seek comfort knowing that he’s absolutely gutted right now and will think twice before driving a car thats out of his league, i mean its like a dustbin driver asking to borrow your Rolls Royce.
bugatti veron £830,000 to see the guys face who smoshed it up priceless
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm
Ciaran -
Do some homework before you start spouting off about the engineering. This car was built around the powerplant not marketing. I trust the design studio had their say but the Veyron was brought about by some massive engine research. I’m sure this car could get the best of the most trained driver! With out doubt this car was driven with great neglegence and sadly their was an innocent pregnant woman involved. The Veyron is a closed circuit or track car plain and simple!!!
It’s ugly anyway.Give me an Enzo or a Turbo Carrera or a Gallardo anytime over this beetle looking overpriced ego machine.It may be fast but where are you going to do 385kms per hour unless it’s on a track! It turns heads only because of it’s price.
haha! dont worry. he can probably by one on ebay for a tenner! a little model which he can actually drive that is
This is an absolutly amazing car and i think that crashing a veyron is bad enough talk being done for it as well. I think the astra driver got off lightly at least her car only cost aroud £15000 not £840000.
This is an absolutly amazing car and i think that crashing a veyron is bad enough talk being done for it as well. I think the astra driver got off lightly at least her car only cost aroud £15000 not £840000.
1 down, 49 to go ?
Actually: 300 were built of which 12 sold in the UK. In Surrey so it’s bound to be some City type who was blowing off some of his XMas bonus. On second thought, maybe a Prem. footballer given the regularity with which they crash their $$$ cars.
I can’t believe you guys are all worried for the driver and giving him props for “giving it some”. He did this on a public road and ran into a pregnant women. It’s losers like this guy who should never be allowed to live, let alone drive again.
‘Great power comes with great responsability’
Everyone mentions the car and the driver of the veyron (he’s got guts, he’s an idiot, what a waste of a car); but no one seems concerned for the person that he hit. I woud be mad as hell if some billionare’s car wrecked my car and put my life at risk. What if he was not wearing his seatbelt, his body could have killed the other driver. Wouldn’t that suck big time.
I want names, I want addresses, I want phone numbers. This person will be tortured beyond belief, killed with arsenic, cut up and sent off to to Bugatti so they can see the mauled face of the disgrace who crashed this beautiful, exquisite car.
MESSAGE TO THE DRIVER OF THIS VEYRON: I AM COMING TO GET YOU. YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS CRIME. IF YOU RUN I WILL CATCH YOU. HIDE AND I WILL FIND. PREPARE TO DIE BITCH.
all i can say is wat a bastard. i would give and arm and a leg too to hav one
hah just give it to me
dat car iz sik and jus asks to be screwed
so its nt da drivers fault!
Lets face it, he was twating around in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Should have gone to the track. TWAT
Hey people! Let’s get it together. This car is totalled. Now it has to be junked. I am first in line to get it. This guy ruined all the fun for the little brothers, nephews, uncles, etc. He wouldn’t have had this problem in a wide body prix.
But you dont get the buzz on the track then you get on the road
TRUST ME
ive got a m5 and i woulnn\’t take it to the tracks!
its better on the rd
I big da GUY up for rappin a car like dat
lets hope ez got insurance lol
Bet he aint gonna let his missus use the car again!!!! she is well in the dog house!!!!!
hi guys…that car was actually minme and the tyre came off so my car woz nice n then horrible became the car ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SOIRTY and i have 20 mill ££££££££££££££ more left in my bank more more bugatti’s for me n the insurance is free for me im speacil and i h8 buggatti’s thats why i crashy whasyd my car n now i will take over thge world mwuwuwuwuwuwuhahahahahahahahaha onlky kiddin i drive a
LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH ND I CRASHED THAT TOOOO!!!!!!!!!
PS. THIS WAS A LIE ……..IT WOSNT MY CAR
Wow, what a range of different opinions about this car and its driver!
Well, I’m just glad I now own a piece of this historical event. Yep, you may love it or hate it…, but I now own a fairly decent piece of this Bugatti, the first wrecked £830k + production car in history. (Feeling Smug.)
It’s part of the carbon-fible undertray and it even has a label with production codes and ‘Bugatti’ printed on it.
(Do you think I should frame it everyone?… or just phone the driver who wrecked it and ask him if he wants to super-glue it back on in a desperate bid to appease his raging brother from whom he ‘borrowed’ the car!)
That is my dream car and some tosser goes and has a crash, UN BELIVEBLE
So, some pompous, up his own ass, rich guy from snotty surrey stuffed his veyron…boo hoo…never mind eh’. Still it reminds me of the time I booted a VX220 Turbo off a set of traffic lights on an icy road and ended up round a lamppost. They tried to fix it but it never drove the same…and a VX is a hell of a lot simpler and less sophisticated than a Veyron. Sad to say I reckon that particular Veyron will never be the same and I pity the poor mug who buys it thinking he’s got a (relative!) bargain, cos if this Prick crashed a mint one, can u imagine someone crashing one with a bent chassis…RIP matey.
to those of you who think the car is ugly: the car is built for purpose not for looks, do your homework. It’s too bad the idiot wrecked it, much like the dolts who smashed up their Enzos. 253 is the top speed the comptuer in it allows it, definately good for speed but the F1 car that only reached 240 was a bt more everyday user friendly. However I applaud Bugatti for using the best and highest technology to make a very advanced state of the art car. Yeah it’s expensive but when it’s this good it’s worth it. Though I don’t see cars that get anything less than 20mpg at the most staying around for more than another 10-20 years due to gas drying up. Not to mention they can make electrics and hydrogen cars that could smoke this version of the Veyron.
PSH all it needs is come duct tape!
but seriously - can you imagine how that guy musta felt knowing he just crashed his older brothers $1,600,000 car.
then again - never drive a car like this in rain, EVER. its just retarted.
It’s a great pity his driving talent does’nt match his bank account… what an obscenely expensive boys toy.
What a dickhead aye. if he was gona give it herbs he should heve waited untill it was dry. he needs to be drawn and quatered for ruining the best car in the world
why d fuck wud u give ur bro dat car to drive…..lol
plain and simple, this car is an amazing machine and in the right hands can do amazing things! it should however be kept away from heavy footed twats that cant drive! as lee said “with great power comes great responsibility” !
TIE UP THE RESPONSIBLE BITCH AND SUE HIS A**! ! ! THE PREGNANT MOM COULD EASILY GET HALF A MILLION IN A LAWSUIT. WHO DRIVES A $1,000,000 + IN THE RAIN ???? DUNB PEOPLE THESE DAYS!!
i have a few words 1 is Lynchmob the second i hope the man has nightmares about a baby thats all deformed thanks to him ( i dont wish this on the real baby)LYNCHMOB LYNCHMOB LYNCHMOB
Man the Bugatti Veyron looks like a piece of plastic turd wish the engine was put to better use in a better looking car.
Dude Wat the fuck thats an extremly cool car
i should find that guy and bust his fucking head open
dumbass mothafucker
what the hell happened? that’s what you get for driving great cars! so son’t drive too fast if you are a stupid driving nerd! shit!
Haha! What a tit, if you get to drive a car like that, show it some respect! Loser!
what an EFFING idiot… seriously… WOW. hydroplane bullshizz he shouldnt have let anyone drive it.. i dont let my girl drive my audi..
i canty belive dat he crached 1.2 million dollar wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww he is a money maker so can he give me just 100$
Y buy a 1.5 milion car sick people …….
all’s well that ends well… obviously not for him
it is a shame that such a enginering master peice should crashed.
but on the bright side
well is there one?
id h8 to be the insurance company
That guy should and MUST kill himself.. lol how can he even do that?! that’s almost impossible! i’d hate to see what he’d do to a normal car
ah i see he is indian, therfore rich!
HOPE HIS GOT INSURANCE AND COVERED THAT ODA INDYS ARSE
i feel so so so bad that poor man/woman now they have to put up with being called the first person the ever reck one of the things. but what i fell the worse about is that poor poor car it never did any thing wrong.
why does it matter anyway the good stuff is in the back
Ive seen acrashed enzo,
Ive seen a crash R,
ive seen a lot of crashed cars,
but never have i cried up un till now, over a crached car
LOL
You insurance premiums have just gon through the roof!!!
What a plonker………………He broke the best car ever made. sacrelidge. Could the owner of the vehicle please contact me. (when its mended) Id die for a drive in a veyron. Please leave the brother tied up to the electric conductor on post office tower though.
Thanks
P.S Are you still talking to him who cannot be mentioned ?
It’s scary, the 2nd most expensive car (coming 2nd to the Scuba Dive) at 1.5 million there’s only 5 now! click here for more pics in the furure
the worst part is that it is the red and black one, its my fav but i have seen the all black one
GO BOMBERS!
also the bugattii is so expensive that u cant get INSURANCE!
OMG TO BAD FOR HIM HA HA I OWN ONE WELL AT LEAST I STILL HAVE MINE HA HA HA BAD LUCK FOR THAT DUDE!!!!!!!!! P.S. MINE IS ONE OF THE 12 RAREST IN ENGLAND !!!!!!
that scuba shit aint the most expensive car..the bugatti veyron comes third, before that its sum ferrari..and with first place we gots the maybach exelero price at 8 millions dollars..and there is only ONE in the world
No you don’t own a Bugatti. No owner of a Bugatti Veyron uses the acronym ‘omg’.