A US man who won a luxury sports car Lamborghini worth USD 380,000 in a contest crashed it within six hours of winning.
“Yeah, I got it on Saturday and I wrecked it on Saturday,” David Dopp was quoted by KSL, a local website, as saying.
“We were coming up a hill, going around a corner; and as soon as we came up the hill, we either hit some black ice or loose gravel or something, and all of a sudden we just started spinning,” he said. “We ended up in a field, and I back-ended a couple of fence posts.”
The car suffered a little front-end damage, a puncture in the wheel, scratches along the passenger side and was towed away as it could not be driven.
It was awarded to him by a nonprofit organisation after winning a contest entered by thousands and beating nine other finalists during halftime of a football game on November 12.
“I couldn’t believe I won it,” he said.
Dopp took out the car for his friends and family to see.
“It was kind of weird seeing a more expensive car than a house sitting in the same spot,” he said. “Usually, you see these sitting outside of mansions, not outside a little house here in Santaquin.”
Dopp, who says he will be more careful in the future, has an insurance cover for the luxury sports car and hopes it will be “nice and pretty here in a couple of months.”