Summary of the news
- Two Ferraris took off from a residential street in Marche, Italy.
- The vehicles took part in a race sponsored in the region.
- After hitting a house wall, the vehicles burned out.
- Fortunately, both pilots survived the accident with only minor injuries.
Ferraris take off from the track during a road race in Italy Montage/R7, with Reproduction/Vigili del Fuoco (via The Sun); Play/YouTube/@IlFattoQuotidiano
Two Ferraris start off a residential street in the Marche region of Italy during a race. After landing due to a collision with a house wall, the vehicles were quickly consumed by the fire.
A surveillance camera at the site captured the precise moment of the vehicles’ “escape”. See below:
As seen in the video above, debris from the crash ended up in a swimming pool at a residential building.
According to the local press, the BRL 3 million Ferraris were driven by a Dutch and a Belgian driver.
Fortunately, both drivers managed to escape the accident alive.
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The two were taken to a hospital about 25 minutes from the scene with minor injuries.
The police are still investigating the cause of the “start” of the Ferraris.
The total damage from the collision has not yet been disclosed by the Italian media.
Speaking of the collision, a train crash in Greece has claimed at least 36 lives and injured 85. Cash:
A train carrying 350 passengers collided with a freight train in Greece, killing 36 and injuring 85. After the frontal impact, some wagons caught fire. Pictures show the accident damage.
The train with passengers departed from Athens, the capital of Greece, to the country’s second largest city, Thessaloniki. On the same tracks, but in the opposite direction, came a train with freight cars
Greek Health Minister Thanos Plevris said “most of the passengers were students” returning to Thessaloniki for a bank holiday after a long weekend.
The accident has been compared to a natural disaster, with nearly 150 firefighters and 40 ambulances dispatched to the scene.
The force of the shock was so severe that the locomotives and the front cars of the two locomotives were completely destroyed.
According to the Onlarissa newspaper, the two hospitals in the Larissa region took in the injured. In addition, the military hospitals in Thessaloniki and Athens are on standby if necessary.
An emergency meeting was organized after the accident and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was on his way to the scene of the tragedy.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. It’s tragic. Five hours later we’re still finding bodies,” said an exhausted firefighter as he exited an area where he and his team were removing the dead.
Mechanics and cranes were also sent to the site to try to clear the debris and lift the wagons. “Most of the occupants were rescued,” said the spokesman for the fire department.
A young woman, crying, told the local newspaper Onlarissa that “the train was late and stopped for a few minutes when a big noise was heard”.
The wagons were charred, with a tangle of metal and broken windows. Other, less damaged wagons overturned and rescue teams tried to rescue survivors with ladders.