Sell ​​vehicle provoked a major accident Bashny.Net

The man - a strange creature. He is willing to shell out millions and millions of Da Vinci's painting, but do not give a thousand of painting by an unknown artist. He would prefer the cloak of Hitler than the relics of someone svyaschenomuchenikov. And this example is proof of that. At Bonhams auction in England for 1, $ 3 million was sold to the infamous Austin-Healey 100 S, which has provoked the largest-ever accident at Le Mans due to the deaths of 86 people!
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In that fateful day in 1955 he ran the British driver Lance Macklin. However, in fact, people do not kill Austin-Healey, a Mercedes 300SLR, piloted by Frenchman Pierre Levegh. This car hit the side Macklin code swerved to overtake Jaguar D-Type, an abrupt halt before entering the pit lane.



Mercedes flew right into the stands and just exploded. Details mowing people have scattered, like a scythe the grass. Killed driver and 85 spectators, and about 120 people received injuries of varying severity.
Inet buggy can not fix. That's all I wanted to say.



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