News: Toyota test drivers die in LFA crash

[johnrambo007]

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/23/breaking-two-toyota-test-drivers-die-in-crash-in-germany/

We don't have much in the way of details yet, but according to a report out of Germany, two Toyota test drivers died in a crash on highway 410 after veering into the oncoming lane and colliding with a BMW.

While the BMW driver survived, the two Toyota drivers died while testing the recently spied LFA Nurburgring Edition.

The report says that the driver was 67 years old, which leads us to believe that one of the casualties was Hiromu Naruse, Toyota's chief test driver, Akio Toyoda's personal driver and the Godfather of the LFA.

More information should be forthcoming.

 

[Boily]

shittt

 

[mrspider]

les gars dans le Lexus se sont suicider
lol
il se sont fait laver par une hyundai Equus v8
alors trop honteux ils ont commis le suicide

 

[johnrambo007]

accelerator pedal stuck maybe?

 

[Saab900t]

 

[johnrambo007]

vid here


http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/regiona...-bei-Unfall-mit-Super-Lexus-_arid,102517.html

 

[Saab900t]

doesnt look that bad, I wouldnt have thought it was fatal...unless they were really flying (but then I would have expected more damage)

 

[johnrambo007]

Ok peut etre que c'est différent en allemagne.... mais les lignes du centre sont blanches.... c'est une route one way? Comment ils ont pu faire un face a face??

 

[Saab900t]

maybe they were too used to driving on the other side of the road?? who knows.

 

[Saab900t]

ok...theres blood on the helmet in one of those pics, gross

 

[CAB]

its normal they are dead the LFA is made with recycle coke cans.

 

[Dubweiser]

Looks like he was trying to hit the apex of that left hand turn on the wrong side of the road...

RIP

 

[ATR90]

Oh shit...

 

[ggti]

ca devait etre la faute au tapis pogner sous la pedale de gaz

 

[Sessase]

Those stories are nice...

LEXUS LFA, THE MAN SLAYER!

On serious note, suck for toyoda, lost his test driver

 

[Ronin]

Not much airbags in that test model LFA compared to the BMW, no brake skids either from either cars... RIP

 

[Untamed]

Looks like he was trying to hit the apex of that left hand turn on the wrong side of the road...

RIP

Ditto, it's sad

 

[Dark Blitz]

Bad publicity for Toyota safety. I see BMW coming up with a new commercial.

 

[Vortx]

il y a l'air d'y avoir 548 airbag dans la Bmw et 1 1/2 dans la lfa....

 

[FoxMcloud]

ayoye hein