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11-03-2007, 07:43 PM
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Sergio Marchionne crashed in a 599 (autobahn)
first of all - nobody injured
according to swiss newspaper, Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne crashed today on the swiss Autobahn near Basel.
traveling 100km/h, he braked too late and bumped into a car, airbags went off .... cars stops in the rails
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11-03-2007, 08:03 PM
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Ew!! That hurts!!
I guess just the electronics isn't enough
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11-03-2007, 08:12 PM
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^ yep
you still have to pay attention on whats going on infront of you
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11-03-2007, 09:28 PM
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^^ soo thats wht you woudlnt have to care about in the next lexus
that crash seems to have happened well over 150kmph .. or is it just me
good to know no one was injured
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11-04-2007, 03:45 AM
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11-04-2007, 07:51 AM
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The Italian press agency Ansa quoted intimate source on Saturday a Fiat, according to which Marchionne had uninjured gotten over the accident. From Geneva coming it further-traveled after it according to plan after Rüschlikon ZH, in order to participate at a Workshop Swiss of a bank.
In accordance with police report of Saturday the events on Friday afternoon took place as follows: A 76-jähriger Frenchman was with its Renault Laguna in the canton Solothurn on the overhauling trace of a1 toward Zurich on the way. The cars driving before it came into the stagnation, why the driver braked and brought his car to the stop. The red Ferrari followed with a distance of approximately 25 meters and drove approximately 100 kilometer per hour. When the 55-jährige steering wheel from the canton course noticed the maneuver before it, it introduced a Vollbremsung, could not however a collision with the tail of the Renault any longer prevent.
In the Ferrari 599 GTB the Airbags were released by the force of the impact, on which the driver could see nothing more and its car steered to the right. The vehicle came over the normal and Pannenstreifen on the connecting piece of the guidance mechanism, schlitterte half on the guard rail and was stopped finally strongly damaged. According to police nobody was injured. The damage to property at vehicles and highway mechanism amounts to several ten thousand francs. The Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano damaged in the accident is at present most expensive road model, which the Italian sportscar manufacturer offers. Ferrari belongs to the Fiat company.
The 55-jährige Italo Canadian Marchionne is a boss of the Fiat company and considerably involved in the redevelopment of the Italian car maker. Among other things it had repelled ranges, which did not belong to the nuclear business, and had been received alliances with other manufacturers for the lowering of the costs. Marchionne resides since its time as a Algroup company head in Switzerland. Zurzeit is he a board of directors president Geneva goods control company of the SGS and member of the UBS board of directors.
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11-04-2007, 08:05 AM
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^ funny translation - from german probabely
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11-05-2007, 05:41 PM
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yepp
oh btw that's a nice "bump" right there stmoritzer  looks more like a full - bone hard - crash to me
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11-06-2007, 05:40 AM
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It will cost a lot of many to fix it.
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