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Truck driver wins Lamborghini, crashes it hours later

Thanks to a Utah convenience store's contest, Frito-Lay truck driver David Dopp won another set of wheels last Saturday: this lime-green, 631-hp Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640, worth at least $200,000. Such an awesome car that will...oops, he already wrecked it.

Just a few hours after getting the keys to the V-12 powered Italian supercar named for a famed Spanish fighting bull, Dopp took to the roads around his home in Santaquin, Utah. According to In Santaquin News, police were called about dusk after a witness spotted the all-wheel-drive Lambo bass-ackwards in a field, with skidmarks from where it left the road.

Dopp -- who had apparently already taken one call from the local police about takin' it easy before going off-road -- says he was going about 40 mph to 50 mph on a 35-mph road when he hit a patch of what he called black ice or gravel. The police report says the car went over a curb, off the road and 75 feet into the field, calling the accident "speed related."

The Murcielago is now bound for Las Vegas, where mechanics will calculate a repair estimate on the busted oil pan and damaged bumper. Dopp, who has insurance, says the day was "an emotional roller coaster." If you mess with a bull, don't be surprised when you get the horns.

Photo via InSantaquin/YouTube

 

5,328 comments

  • John  •  5 months ago
    the Lambo is green and all wheel drive, maybe he thought it was a John Deere
    • Rogue_Warrior_6 5 months ago
      Good One!!
    • Patrick 5 months ago
      When he gets it back from Las Vegas, it will be lifted with big mudder tires on it and spot lights on top.
    • stop the brain washing 5 months ago
      This was the best reply of 2011
  • chitos  •  5 months ago
    "Are you protected from Mayhem?".... (recalculating*)
  • Robert  •  5 months ago
    Hold muh beer and watch this!
    • Cole 5 months ago
      Yeah!
    • Evas1ve 5 months ago
      You know he wouldn't have put his beer down... i bet he held on-to-it as the Lambo was fishing tailing and flying mid air LOL!!!!
    • Robert 5 months ago
      lol. You are probably right. I got this, I do this one handed all the time. woohoo!!! uh oh!
  • Killuminati  •  5 months ago
    He went from driving a truck to driving a Lambo. That's like weening a baby off of breast milk and straight to scotch
    • Nate~S 5 months ago
      lol, good one!
    • forester 5 months ago
      people cant comprehend some things. i have 2 motorcycles, one mundane & the other insane, NOBODY rides the insane except me, the average person has no concept of 200+ hp on a 400# motorcycle, kinda like being a millionaire, i cant begin to comprehend what thats like...not yet any way... :)
    • r 5 months ago
      haha
  • chris  •  5 months ago
    75 feet off the road and he was only going 40 mph. That's a hell of tail wind.
    • Miles 5 months ago
      Can you imagine that? This guy was smart enough to invent the Doppler Effect, yet he is too stupid to drive a LamBro...
    • Steve 5 months ago
      75 feet is not very far...
    • MagicSands1978 5 months ago
      At 40 mph you're traveling 59 feet every second... When's the last time you stopped from 40 MPH in 1.25 seconds?
  • Optimistic Pessimist  •  5 months ago
    Ain't like driving an old Peterbuilt potato chip truck is it Bubba?
  • Gaijin  •  5 months ago
    I would've just sold it. $200k is a nice chunk of change.
  • JK  •  5 months ago
    DOOOOOOHHHH!!!
  • Richard  •  5 months ago
    this is why we can't have nice things. : P
  • lulz  •  5 months ago
    Too bad he wasn't a wheelman. That's what happens when you give people a car that is clearly over their level of ability. Most people struggle to keep a Prius on the road...
  • chitos  •  5 months ago
    "you can't fix Stupid!*................. (thanks Ron!)
  • alfonsof  •  5 months ago
    Good thing his last name is Dopp and not Dope
  • Goz2Fast  •  5 months ago
    This is what happens when you give high speed toys to low speed minds.
  • Yup  •  5 months ago
    Actually the price of this car is $300,000. It is 640 Hp (Hmmm...thus the name LP-640). It does 0-60 in 3.3 sec. It has a top speed of 211 mph. So I find it very unlikely that he was really only going 40mph when he lost control of it in a 35mph zone. If the car can handle 211 mph...pretty sure it can manage 40mph! (Oh I just threw in all of those fact-oids because..once again the people that write these articles for Yahoo never seem to spell check or fact find anything before they write 'em)
  • tdd  •  5 months ago
    Epic Fail
  • David P  •  5 months ago
    How could he afford the taxes?
  • Richard  •  5 months ago
    HaHa, he forgot he has to paid the tax probably close to a GT-R.
  • R.D.  •  5 months ago
    I have been driving Corvettes in all weather for 30 years, you really need to understand adhesion limits with high power cars.
  • arcane_paradise  •  5 months ago
    Thats funny.
  • Greg S  •  5 months ago
    Take it away before this dimwit hurts somebody

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