Ferrari- involved accident on Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, VA on April 16, 2016

I saw the crash actually happen. I'm 95% sure the car involved was a 599. I was heading out after a great morning at Katie's Car and Coffee. The Ferrari was heading towards Great Falls. There was one car I front of me but I heard the tires screeching, a car get hit and saw the Ferrari in my lane of traffic and then try to turn back into its lane. The flatbed was stopped in traffic. The ferrari's passenger side hit the corner of the flat bed and exploded.

I think the crash was related to an earlier crash involving an old Honda because there were EMTs on the scene by the time I parked and walked up.

 

A witness who drove by the accident showed me a picture of the car while I was at Katie's. It was a maroon 599 that was totally destroyed. The witnessed thinks there was a fatality. Hopefully the later is not correct.

 

I drove by and the police were on the scene directing traffic. Fire had already departed (from what I saw). Maroon 599 completely smashed. There was a huge semi with a flatbed (with a tractor on the flatbed) and it looked like the Ferrari had spun into the side of the flatbed. I can't believe that a truck that size would be allowed on Georgetown Pike. Hope everyone was ok.

 

I saw the accident happen today. I was leaving the C&C and the 599 was heading towards great falls. The 599 hit the corner of a big flatbed trailer transporting an excavator and exploded. The 599 was destroyed. I stopped and definitely didn't see any serious injuries. The driver or passenger of the 599 was sitting upright on the ground and EMTs were at the scene. Likely because of prior accident that may have actually been the distraction that caused this one. Hopefully his condition didn't change after I left.

 

Terrible... My thoughts are with the driver.

 

Very unfortunate.... Best wishes to the people involved!

 

Must have been an extremely hard hit. Look at how the roof is rotating around the "B" pillar.

 

Bending from the force of the "jaws" after cutting them out from passenger side.

 

Couple more pictures from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findcarmeets/posts/516807461859206

You can definitely see a cut in the B pillar. Hope everyone is ok, looks to be Washington, DC tags from the window registration sticker.

 

Just had someone write me on facebook to make sure I was okay. Car does look a bit like the one I sold last year.

 

The cut at the B pillar was caused by the impact. This picture was taken immediately after the accident and before anyone touched the car.
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Prayers for the driver. I can relate, having recently totaled my 360, but nowhere near the severity of this accident.


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Wow, that's so painful to look at for many reasons. Was there a passenger as well? Any updates? I don't see deployed airbags..? Hopefully everyone is alright.

 

Hope everyone is ok. Looks bad.

 

I suspect airbags did not deploy as impact was at too much of an angle. The massive sheet metal strip is due to the rear of the truck being too high on the car for the structural parts of the car to be involved

 

That road ain't big enough to open up twelve cylinders. Dulles Toll Road next time my friend.
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Poor taste IMHO.

 

+1

 

+1 agreed. We all have a responsibility to drive correctly and safely on public roads. If you want to test the limits of your car do it on the track where you can learn properly the right way to handle your car.

I don't know anything about this event other than what I've read online. But those photos really disturbed me. That was a terrible event. The car is just a car. But a life is so much more. I seriously hope the drive and any passengers (if any) are ok? Thoughts and Prayers for the owner and friends/family.

Bill P.

 

+ 1 I hope everyone is ok

 

They are in big trouble. You seriously think everything is ok? The extent of the damage revealed in the photo you should be disturbed.

 

+100

 

From the Fairfax County Police Department News
https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/the-daily-blotter-weekend-recap-april-18-2016/

RECKLESS DRIVING: Georgetown Pike/Towlston Road, 04/16/16, around 8:15 a.m. Police responded to a four-vehicle crash and charged one driver with reckless driving. An investigation determined a 65-year-old man was driving a 2007 Ferrari westbound on Georgetown Pike near Towlston Road. The driver crested a hill and discovered traffic stopped ahead for a vehicle waiting to make a left turn onto Towlston Road. The driver, attempting to avoid a rear-end collision, crossed over the double yellow line and collided head-on with a 2005 Acura RSX, driven by a 57-year-old Leesburg-area man; the Acura left the roadway and came to rest against a utility pole. The Ferrari continued forward and struck a 2008 BMW sedan in the westbound lane, driven by a 28-year-old Alexandria-area man, then struck the rear of an International Harvester TT flatbed unit that was towing a large construction vehicle, also in the westbound lane, driven by a 42-year-old man, of Fairfield, Pa.

The passenger in the Ferrari, a 36-year-old man, and the driver and passenger of the Acura, a 57-year-old man and woman, were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one else required medical attention. The driver of the Ferrari, Josef Tosovsky, 65, of Washington, D.C., was issued a summons for reckless driving.


Very fortunate that no lives were lost in this accident.

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and yes, the age suggests that it is this Josef Tosovsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_To%C5%A1ovsk%C3%BD