M50 Lamborghini Accident

listermint

Hi All


Girlfriend texted me this morning to say she seen a red lamborghini involved in a crash with a Sky installer van on the M50 at the N2 exit.
Never nice to see a car like that in a crash. Hope no one was hurt, Anyone see the incident or update??

TheBazman

Must be the Murcielago that has been around, assuming it was on Irish plates. Hopefully it's not too serious.

listermint

Dont believe it was very serious (injuries) but it caused mayhem as there was an accident northbound at the same time so people were rubber necking both ways.

rebel.ranter

The rubber-necking of passing traffic must have taken extra long because of the involvement of the Lamborghini.

smash

What a shame. Hope there was only small damage, it's the only Murcielago in the country.

smash

Looks like it's in Jim's hands now, on his personal UK plate like the rest of his cars. I doubt it was a Lambo in the crash this morning. All sides of this car looks perfect to me.



Photo taken 10 mins ago.

bijapos

steve06 wrote: »

What a shame. Hope there was only small damage, it's the only Murcielago in the country.

Theres an 05 one near Strokestown in Roscommon as well, think its orange though. Owner had a Diablo before this.

smash

05 car is the Same car as pictured above.

mgbgt1978

Jim who ????
Jim Corr ? Jim Jim (from Radioland) ? Jim McDaid (retirement present) ?

Ghost Train

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Jim who ????
Jim Corr ? Jim Jim (from Radioland) ? Jim McDaid (retirement present) ?

it's on the number plate

Alun

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Jim who ????
Jim Corr ? Jim Jim (from Radioland) ? Jim McDaid (retirement present) ?

http://www.jimrockmotors.ie/

deelite

So it wasn't Jimmy Carr then ??

bladebrew

there was a red murcielago at the cannonball run, it was a 04 d reg (i think), there cant be many in the country,
imagine the price of repairing a lambo!

jim ko

Rackstar

steve06 wrote: »

Looks like it's in Jim's hands now, on his personal UK plate like the rest of his cars. I doubt it was a Lambo in the crash this morning. All sides of this car looks perfect to me.

Photo taken 10 mins ago.

Saw that driving south bound on the M50 from M1 junction to N7 exit at around 5 pm

Damien360

Is that plate legal.

If it was an 05 plate before and Irish registered, is it no longer Irish registered with that plate ? Or am I making assumptions from the above posts. This car has a lovely picture on flickr. Just put in JIM KO and click on flickr page. Another JIM on facebook but not sure if that is same guy. Is KO like Murphy within the Chinese community ?

corktina

is it Jim Mcdonaldforgodssakeliz?

smash

This is the cannonball car, the red is 05D71748. The only reason I can see to put on the uk plate is to avoid motor tax. But yea it's illegal, to put on the plate the car would need to be marked as exported.

Damien360 wrote: »

This car has a lovely picture on flickr. Just put in JIM KO and click on flickr page.

That's his old Ferrari 430.

cjt156

Former boxer AFAIK; hence KO.

Alun

cjt156 wrote: »

Former boxer AFAIK; hence KO.

Yeah, look on the "About" page on the website I gave above, and it will tell you all about him and his boxing career.

How he gets away with driving around with a UK reg for so long I don't know, but he's been doing it for years transferring it to different cars now and then.

mgbgt1978

He could be driving around using Trade Plates (which may possibly have become detached from the front and rear windscreens and fallen to the floor).
This would make the car road legal "while carrying out official garage business".
The JIM KO plates could then be simply "show plates".

996tt

according to this https://www.mycarcheck.com/check/?reg_no=JIM+KO it doesnt exist, so must be a show plate.

JIMKO is not a valid registration number.

Unreal how hes been getting away with this for years

jaysusake

JIM ROCK, EX BOXER AND ALSO HAS JIM ROCK MOTORS OUT THE SOUTHSIDE...

smash

996tt wrote: »

according to this https://www.mycarcheck.com/check/?reg_no=JIM+KO it doesnt exist, so must be a show plate.

Probably because it's not JIM KO - it's a mixure of numbers and letter made to look like that. He also has 'JIM ROC' on his Q5.

996tt wrote: »

Unreal how hes been getting away with this for years

He's a car dealer, I presume he's saying their garage cars.

996tt

steve06 wrote: »

He's a car dealer, I presume he's saying their garage cars.

but this car has a 05D plate so two possible things have happened:
1. Car was bought brand new in Ireland so never registered in the Uk,
2. Car was imported from the UK a few years ago, in this situation the old owner would post of their V5 to the UK reveune in swansea meaning the car is no longer registered in the UK.

either way what he is doing is illegal and is the same thing as me taking my plates of and say puting on a show plate on my car

Zubeneschamali

Normally, I'm up on my high horse giving out about any kind of license plate shenanigans, but...

1) If he has an 05 plate for this car, it's not a (massive) VRT tax dodge

2) It's not like the guards will have any problems tracking down the owner of a Lamborghini if they want to.

I suppose he may be dodging Gatso camera tickets...

smash

996tt wrote: »

but this car has a 05D plate so two possible things have happened:
1. Car was bought brand new in Ireland so never registered in the Uk,
2. Car was imported from the UK a few years ago, in this situation the old owner would post of their V5 to the UK reveune in swansea meaning the car is no longer registered in the UK.

either way what he is doing is illegal and is the same thing as me taking my plates of and say puting on a show plate on my car

You can mark it as exported back to the UK and put a uk plate back on it you know.

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

1) If he has an 05 plate for this car, it's not a (massive) VRT tax dodge

It's not a VRT dodge at all, the VRT has been paid, you only pay it once.