Italian Police Wreck Lamborghini Gallardo

Hornswoggle

Why oh why...:(

When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals.

A team of elite drivers was trained to chase down speeding motorists and deliver urgently-needed transplant organs in the futuristic vehicles, capable of reaching more than 200mph.

What they apparently were not prepared for was a distracted motorist who pulled out of a petrol station without looking.
Today, a bandaged and bruised police driver may have had a tough time explaining how he managed to write off one of the force's prized Lamborghinis when he rammed it so hard into a line of parked cars that one of the stationary vehicles ended up on the police car's roof.

According to the police, the crash was caused by the driver of a slow-moving Seat Ibiza who emerged without looking from a service station, clipping the Lamborghini and sending the vehicle swerving into the parked cars.
The front end of the Lamborghini was crushed in the accident, near Cremona, and the driver and a passenger were injured, although not seriously.

The Lamborghini Gallardo, worth £130,000 and capable of reaching 62mph in four seconds, was one of a pair donated by the Italian manufacturer to the police to do battle on Italy's roads, where 1 million motorists are injured annually and 4,731 died last year.
Both cars include transmitters to send images back to HQ, a defibrillator for accidents and a fridge for transporting donor organs. The two officers were returning from a convention in Cremona, where they had been addressed a student audience on road safety.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/30/italian-police-lamborghini

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Hornswoggle

woops, sorry. Did a search for Lamborghini Gallardo to make sure it wasn't already posted but didn't think of checking that thread first...

Cookie_Monster

So they were given them for high speed chases and organ transplant yet were being used for

The two officers were returning from a convention in Cremona, where they had been addressed a student audience on road safety

:rolleyes:

smash

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

So they were given them for high speed chases and organ transplant yet were being used for


:rolleyes:

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Cookie_Monster

steve06 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63281919&postcount=11088

That's even worse, just for show? FFS!
What a waste

smash

The engines have been rebuilt twice I think at this stage. They have really high mileage on them. And sure they have the new ones anyway.

Owen

Italian Carabineri cars are superb. When we were in Sicily, they had 159's everywhere, 2.2 inline 4's and 3.2 v6's, and as the Rally di Sicilia was on when we visited, they'd one incredibly well tricked out 159, spoilers, dropped suspension, 18's, low profile tires, recaros. Crazy thing!

furtzy

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Italian Carabineri cars are superb. When we were in Sicily, they had 159's everywhere, 2.2 inline 4's and 3.2 v6's, and as the Rally di Sicilia was on when we visited, they'd one incredibly well tricked out 159, spoilers, dropped suspension, 18's, low profile tires, recaros. Crazy thing!

Very cool police force. Seen one of them in Rome stretched out on the bonnet of his 3.2 Alfa 159 smoking a cigarette watching the ladies go by

Thornography

furtzy wrote: »

Very cool police force. Seen one of them in Rome stretched out on the bonnet of his 3.2 Alfa 159 smoking a cigarette watching the ladies go by

Sign me up.!

furtzy

Thornography wrote: »

Sign me up.!

Indeed....but once night time comes and all the Italian low life surface they are nowhere to be seen