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Old 2nd December 2009, 10:04   #1
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Italian Polizia crash Gallardo

Italian police have crashed their most valuable patrol car, a 165,000-euro (£150,000) Lamborghini.

The accident happened near the northern Italian town of Cremona where it was on display at a student jobs fair.
Reports say the car swerved to avoid another vehicle which crossed into its path, ploughing into two stationary cars. It was damaged beyond repair.
One of the two officers in the vehicle at the time of the incident suffered a broken rib, the other received bruises.
The Lamborghini car, painted in the Italian police force's blue and white colours, was a gift to the force from the carmakers in 2004.
The six-speed luxury vehicle with a 500-horsepower engine is designed to go from zero to 100km/h (60mph) in four seconds.
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Source: BBC News - Italian police crash Lamborghini supercar

Gallery: Italian police crash their beloved Lamborghini | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Old 2nd December 2009, 10:06   #2
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OMG. Its so painful to see.
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Damn! That's a very expensive set of srcap! Sad to see such a fate of a supercar.
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Oh what a pity to see exotics crashed! I hope the company offers them a Murcielago as free replacement
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Oh what a pity to see exotics crashed! I hope the company offers them a Murcielago as free replacement
I would never want to see the Polizia Scrap a Murcielago! That would be very disheartening!

The crashed Gallardo seems to be the version before the LP 560-4.
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The crashed Gallardo seems to be the version before the LP 560-4.
Yup. It's the original Gallardo. The one before the Superleggera and everything.......
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will the driver of the lambo be fined?
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Old 2nd December 2009, 17:43   #8
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I think the police din't like the old lambo and what to be replaced with new lambo LP560 and did this
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Think we can salvage some parts from this car for the one that got burnt in chennai ?
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Think we can salvage some parts from this car for the one that got burnt in chennai ?
Now you're thinking. Alas! both have front end damage. This must have been a high speed crash because the other car is (practically) parked on the Lambo's roof.

Were the cops going too fast ?
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One more Lamborghini Totalled

This one's in Italy. A Lamborghini Gallardo police patrol car was totalled.

Source : Caters,Dailymail UK,*************

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The car was one of the two supercars which were donated to the Italian police by Lamborghini to keep up with speeding motorists driving other supercars. The two police officers involved managed to get away with only minor injuries. No other injuries were reported from the crash site.
The car which was shown to students was returning to its base Bologana after being resprayed in Police colors when the accident happened.
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God works in mysterious ways!
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Lamborghini is not going to lose anything on that. It's going to be the police department's loss.
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Yeah,right. Like the Police paid for the gallardo!
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Who cares though !! End of the day am sure the insurance would pay for it and they prolly will end up with another lambo in their stables.
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