Ital Auto sued over crashed Ferrari

[Raychay]

Looking at the damages to the rear, maybe the car was travelling 68 km/h in reverse when it skidded!

[confidence23]

68kph could be 1st gear at 7000rpm...

[BelleIsa]

My two pence worth...

 

High chance that the road limit is at 70km/h.

Thus the "declaration" of the "supposed traveling speed" of the car when it lost control to be "within" speed limits.

 

Is insurance covered if tester was found to be speeding thus resulting in an accident?

That would probably be the reason why AD insist to declare the vehicle was at such speeds?

 

Post-servicing, meaning all components checked before the car went out for QC? Or was the car out on test-drive before it was completely serviced?

 

So in future when we have worn brake pads and car is sent to AD for brake pad replacement, will AD be off the hook if they crash our car, saying our car has such a concern, thus resulting in an accident?

 

 

Something interesting struck :

 

Why no other cars travelling at 68km/h also skidded and crashed on that day?

Given the wet roads and rainy weather, sounds interesting that the only accident happened to a Ferrari.

Perhaps no RWD/ MR-engine cars were there on that day.. or perhaps they were skilled enough to counter when the skid happened.. Must be highly qualified personnel with over 20 years driving experience..

Or perhaps everyone was driving at 30km/h...

 

 

"Ital, owned by hotelier Ong Beng Seng, secured the Ferrari franchise in 2009. The Scuderia was sold before its tenure."

 

Sounds like the car belongs to Hong Seh previously.. Otherwise no further mention of it being a Parallel Imported vehicle?

 

One particular thing from the Stomp article bugs me though, as Ital was quoted as stating,

 

"The car was travelling at 68kmh on a straight path when it skidded"

 

How did they know exactly at what speed the car skidded? Was there some kind of logging software on the car similar to a black box on an airliner, or did the car happen to have a car camera with a GPS function? Or was the 68kmh figure declared by the driver at the time? Was the driver staring at the speedometer instead of the road?

 

If it was the two former, I would imagine there was a lot more data that exists to describe what happened in the lead up to the incident. If it was the latter, well, let's say I would have a mouthful of salt if there wasn't any other corroborating evidence.

 

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