Hi,

this night they has been the first crash of this years gumball. it happened near frankfurt in germany at 3:30am.

a friends of mine stopped to help together with other gumballers (in a 997 and s4).

luckily noone suffered major injuries!

here are the first pics of the viper:

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3338/img39041jp.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img39041jp.jpg)http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2332/img38943ni.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img38943ni.jpg)http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5656/img38925mm.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img38925mm.jpg)
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7577/img39017fm.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img39017fm.jpg)http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1289/img38974zc.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img38974zc.jpg)

and a vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caj_HIh6-d8

too bad. nice of you to stop & help though.

Man, that sucks for the owner. It seems like every year there are at least one or two Vipers that crash during the Gumball. Not relating to the Viper, I remember an NYC police officer entered his Crown Vic patrol car in the race last year. I just thought it was funny.

i have video of the crash but unfortunatly im having some probelms uploading it so i would have shown it but not anymore

Vipers rip apart like paper. I'd love to own one but I'd be paranoid driving it.

yea i know

from what i saw of the video of the other viper that had crashed, the cam car was behind it and the viper was driving normaly then all of a sudden it almost looked like he had pulled the hand brake and steered into the ditch. after that was hard to tell what happened but i could still make out it fliping more than 2 times.