A Fender Bender Bill You Don't Want

[AF News Desk]

Some of us have been in a situation where we've dinged another car on accident or been run into by someone.

However, I don't think ANY of us can top this fender bender and the likely insurance bill that will follow.

The story from Yahoo! Autos:

Originally Posted by Marco R. della Cava - Yahoo! Autos, 7/28/11

Million-Dollar Fender Bender
A blonde woman driving a Bentley crashes into an Aston Martin, Ferrari, Mercedes, and Porsche. Insert punch line here.


Monte Carlo's Place du Casino was the site of exotic automotive Armageddon.

Nothing in Monte Carlo is understated, from the baubles to the yachts to the bank accounts. Now add traffic pile-ups to that list.

The Hope Diamond of fender benders unfolded yesterday in possibly the most conspicuous stretch of asphalt in the .75-square-mile principality — the round-about in front of the James Bond-worthy casino — when three blondes in a jelly-bean blue Bentley Azure ($363,000) scraped the rear of a white Mercedes-Benz S-Class (a paltry $91,000). And that was merely the appetizer.

Served up for the main course were a hapless black Ferrari F430 ($186,000), which was hit nose-first by the 2.7-ton Bentley. Then, like two tankers mashing in the fog, a four-door Aston Martin Rapide ($228,000) crunched into the Azure’s passenger door. The cherry on this metal, plastic and carbon-fiber shattering souffle: a stray Porsche 911 ($77,000).

In all, a Titanic mess in mere moments, involving nearly a million dollars of primo automotive machinery. How did this happen? A quick photo-based forensics of the scene based on knowledge of the Place du Casino offers many clues.

What’s evident is that these five vehicles did not all converge on each other in one massive supercar big bang. The Bentley clearly was at fault. Its nose is pointing straight at the casino’s entrance, an entrance where fine cars are routinely valet-parked diagonally. It seems that the Bentley’s driver thought she could sneak past the white Mercedes, then swerved right when she realized they were going to collide, which in turn clipped the Rapide coming up on her right. The Ferrari and the Porsche were collateral damage - parked directly in the Bentley’s now diverted path.

Any chance that the trio responsible for this mess — whose damage tally will easily hit six-figures — would get to scamper off anonymously after a quick chat with Monaco’s famously efficient and ever-present white-gloved police were dashed given both the coordinates of the crash and the time of year. If there ever was a season when this moneyed retreat is more crowded than Times Square on New Year’s Eve, it’s summer. Photos of the crowd, gleefully gawking and photographing the impromptu car show run amok, only go to show that when rich people do dumb things in a big way, the masses are more than happy to snicker.

What's the most expensive car YOU'VE ever hit?

[jon@af]

I love that they mention it's a blonde woman driving. I hope I'm not the only one that caught that .

[silicon212]

I saw that yesterday, was linked to from Drudge Report.

Most expensive thing I've hit? A 1990 Accord, that's all. Wasted it. His insurance paid for the cosmetic damage on my Caprice.

[amy@af]

Originally Posted by Swigz

I love that they mention it's a blonde woman driving. I hope I'm not the only one that caught that .

[jon@af]

Originally Posted by LadyNRedSi

Someone a little bitter?

[jon@af]

Originally Posted by silicon212

I saw that yesterday, was linked to from Drudge Report.

Most expensive thing I've hit? A 1990 Accord, that's all. Wasted it. His insurance paid for the cosmetic damage on my Caprice.

Lucky you! I haven't run into anything yet, but I've nearly tagged more than a couple of Mercedes-Benz's due to poor parking/backing out without looking.

[amy@af]

Originally Posted by Swigz

Someone a little bitter?

that wasn't for you that was for idealism. but i'm just a girl with tools, wtf do i know??

[importautosalvage]

haha to funny

[Moppie]

Originally Posted by LadyNRedSi

that wasn't for you that was for idealism. but i'm just a girl with tools, wtf do i know??

Get a room your two



I don't bother with things like Bentley s and Ferrari's.

The most expensive thing I've ever hit was a Bridge.

[AutoBro]

Saw this a week or two ago! What a disaster. I bet the insurance companies aren't too happy.

[crxlvr]

biggest fail ever.

[playererf]

Don't forget the Rolls in the back there. Looks like the 430 got pushed into it.

[zzyzzx2]

Is this story true? It sounds too good to be true.

[Johnnyx1257]

Lol blonde woman. Could see Paris Hilton doing this

[jdmccright]

I rear-ended an Audi A8 with my 1992 Camry. His damage bill would buy my car 3 times over.