Crashes

You probably see them every day, or nearly so: car transporters, bringing the newest cars to market, shipping used cars to where they're wanted, and generally helping us all get the wheels we want. Sometimes, however, things go wrong. In this case, spectacularly wrong. A tractor-trailer rig...

We’re proud to admit the Ford GT is one of our favorite supercars here at MotorAuthority. An iconic design with just enough modern touches to make it look new, the Ford GT is hard not to love and its V-8 engine just begs to be pushed hard. So hard in fact that several aftermarket tuners have...

This gruesome and saddening image is the result of a 22-year old allegedly trying to show off to passersby in a black Lamborghini Murcielago. The accident took place early on Sunday morning at an intersection on a major roadway in Sydney, Australia. It is believed that the vehicle was driving along...

One look at the image above says it all. The driver of this Lotus Exige is probably not in the best of moods despite having survived a potentially life threatening crash on the notorious Nurburgring, a track often nicknamed the ‘Green Hell’. This latest video, which shows the before and...

We’ve lost count of how many Ferrari 458 Italia supercars have been lost, either due to fire or from their owner’s own carelessness, but it’s safe to say that at least one of the sultry supercars has been lost each and every month since the car was first launched back in late...

Celebrity soccer player David Beckham is no stranger to this site, having turned up in reports surrounding his ever-changing collection of luxury and performance cars since 2007. Now the Los Angeles Galaxy star has suffered a crash, managing to rear end another driver on one of the country’s...

Formula 1 championship leader Sebastian Vettel suffered a setback today on day one of practice at the very wet 2011 Turkish Grand Prix, crashing at high speed into a barrier at Istanbul Park Circuit’s dreaded Turn Eight, a sharp left-hand corner with no less than three apexes. Fortunately the...

Okay, that title may be a little harsh. In the world of high-end car modification, there's extreme, there's insane, and then there's Mansory. But anyone that's actually been inside a Mansory vehicle knows the attention to detail and craftsmanship that goes into the firm’s over-the-top...

Rally racing is one of the world's more interesting motorsports endeavors, not least of which because of the crashes. Sure, we know most hard-core race fans claim not to watch racing for the wrecks, but it's hard not to look away sometimes. Especially when you can find ten minutes of pre-packaged...

We still don’t have all the details on this one but it appears the driver of this Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster somehow managed to get the vehicle upside down. The champagne colored supercar must have been traveling at some speed to end up in this predicament, most likely veering up the...

Nobody, save for perhaps stunt drivers, likes to crash. Even if you're lucky enough to escape injury, accidents invariably mean months of insurance nightmare, dozens of phone calls to people you dislike conversing with, considerable expense and almost certainly time off the road. General consensus...

A 46-year-old New Jersey woman was injured last Saturday when she drove her car into a tree--while dialing 911 to report an erratic driver. The accident occurred in Toms River, during daylight hours, and police would only say that the crash is under investigation. The driver’s condition, as...

Young men and supercars are the simplest recipe for the heady brew of smashed supercars we all love and yet hate to quaff. The latest bottling has produced the utterly destroyed Gumpert Apollo you see above. While it's only marginally less attractive in 100-mph-yardsale form than with all of its...

If you missed this weekend's Malaysian GP, you didn't miss much (we won't spoil it for you) except for Vitaly Petrov's launching of his Lotus-Renault racer over a grassy knoll at the end of the race. He landed so hard the steering column broke off in his hands. The flight came after a rather...

It’s bad enough that this relatively well-kept C5 Chevrolet Corvette was wrecked when its owner crashed into the median strip of a busy highway, but then it was set upon by what must be the world’s worst tow truck driver. We must warn you that watching this video might be a little...

The Underground Racing name has become synonymous with high-performance exotics, thanks mostly to the tuning firm’s special projects like this 250+ mph Lamborghini Gallardo and fire-breathing Murcielago LP670-4 SV. So it’s safe to say that the Underground Racing modified Lamborghini...

Just a day after reporting on this very sorry looking Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which was probably left that way by a drunk driver behind the wheel, comes a new story of an ever more exotic supercar, this time with its drunk driver caught in the act. The latest crashed supercar is a McLaren SLR owned by...

We don’t have complete details on this one but it’s believed the driver of this recently bought Porsche 911 GT3 RS suffered a crash, and then attempted to drive the wrecked car home. This in turn led to the much more severe damage you see here, namely, the cracked front axle. These...

Remember the British journalist that managed to damage Ferrari’s brand new baby, the hate-it-or-love-it FF supercar? If not, here is our original post. Well, today we have an image of the resultant damage, which on the surface only appears to be a dented wheel. Similar damage also appears on...

There’s a reason why incredibly fast cars have an assortment of strangely styled aerodynamic components stuck to their bodies--to keep them glued to the ground. Travelling at similar speeds to aircraft taking off, cars too can have trouble staying on the ground, which is exactly what happened...