Ferrari Enzo Crash, - this story keeps twisting & turning! Options

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The Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu last month is turning into some saga, with so many twists & turns!



This is the latest installment from the LA Times yesterday:

Ferrari Owner Is Minus His Second Car
Stefan Eriksson's priceless Enzo was totaled in a crash last month. On Sunday, his very pricey Mercedes was impounded.
By David Pierson and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
March 28, 2006


Stefan Eriksson's famous exotic car collection keeps shrinking.

First, the former European videogame executive's rare Enzo Ferrari was destroyed in a mysterious crash Feb. 21 on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

Report: www.latimes.com


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Then, on Sunday, he lost his 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, valued at more than $400,000. Beverly Hills police confiscated the vehicle after Scotland Yard said the car might have been stolen.

The officers stopped Eriksson's wife, Nicole Persson, 33, about 2:30 p.m. on the corner of Beverly Drive and Wilshire Boulevard because an officer found the car's European license plate suspicious.

The officer then discovered that Persson lacked a driver's license and that the car was not registered in the United States.

"We contacted Scotland Yard and subsequently learned that the car was perhaps stolen" out of the United Kingdom, Lt. Mitch McCann said.

The entire incident was caught on tape by a 13-year-old exotic car buff who has filmed Eriksson's vehicles in the past.

Beverly Hills authorities said they didn't have details of the British police case.

But Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks said that an unidentified financial institution says it owns the Mercedes and that a financial institution in Scotland says it was the owner of the Enzo.

This leaves Eriksson with only one of the three exotic cars he imported to the United States late last year, Brooks said.

"He brought in through San Diego two Ferraris and the Mercedes and said they were show cars and that he was not going to drive them on the streets," Brooks said.

Last month's crash prompted both an accident investigation and a probe by the Sheriff's Department's Homeland Security Division.

Although no one was injured in the crash, the investigation has generated significant attention because of the strange circumstances and the fact that it destroyed one of only 400 Enzo Ferraris ever built.

Eriksson, who lives in a gated Bel-Air estate, told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the driver and that another man, named Dietrich, had been behind the wheel.

Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene.

But detectives said they were skeptical of his version of events.

Investigators have taken a swab of Eriksson's saliva to match his DNA against blood found on the Ferrari's driver's-side air bag.

Eriksson also told deputies that he was a deputy commissioner of the police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley.

A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the crash scene, identified themselves as homeland security officers and spoke to Eriksson at length before leaving.

According to Car & Driver magazine, the Mercedes SLR McLaren is capable to going 200 mph and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.

The car didn't just capture the eye of Beverly Hills police.

Spyder Dobrofsky, a 13-year-old car enthusiast, happened to be at the scene of Sunday's traffic stop and switched on his camera.

The teenager has photographed cars in Eriksson's collection before and knew immediately that the McLaren was his.

"The car really stands out because of the British plate," Spyder said.

Spyder said Eriksson's wife was with a young child when she was pulled over.

On the tape, Spyder asks the tow truck operator called to remove the Mercedes where he's taking it.

The man jokes: "To my house."

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The high profile crash with an Enzo which took place at the end of February near Beverley Hills...does anybody know anything about this?

1. Eriksson, the 44yr old former Gizmondo executive with a $3.8billion super car collection, claimed not to be driving the red Enzo which crashed at an estimated 162mph, and that a man he knew only as Dietrich was at the wheel. Has this man been identified as Trevor Karney?
2. If yes is the answer to question one, then was the story about the SLR they were supposedly racing false? As it was claimed by Erikson a man known as Trevor left the SLR and asked a car for directions, used that car's driver's cell phone, and left behind a loaded gun clip.
3. Has the Enzoi been submitted for repairs at Ferrari's estimated cost of $300,000?
4. Finally, surely somebody must have seen what happened at the crash? Ie. did nobody on the road that evening see which of the two men, Erikkson and his passenger (who may be 'Dietrich' or Trevor Karney) was in the passenger seat and who was at the wheel? If not, this would seem very bizarre.

It's a lot of questions, I know, but there's so much conflicting information available on the internet that answers are very hard to obtain.

Ta very much for any infro i can be given, and there's an excellent, if cliffhanger-ish report on the crash at www.topgear.com