Embarrassing breakdown for a Swiss Lamborghini driver (31). The man drove with a colleague on Tuesday around 10:50 p.m. in Upper Austria from Mondsee towards Unterach am Attersee. In Innerschwand he stopped in a parking lot, as the police of Upper Austria wrote in a message.
While the passenger got out of the vehicle, the Swiss tried to turn his Lamborghini model Huracan (base price: around 220,000 francs) around.
A maneuver with consequences: instead of turning, he drove backwards into the Mondsee!
The Lambo with the eye-catching paintwork in the colors of the luxury brand Gucci sank about 15 meters from the shore with the 31-year-old at the wheel to a depth of about five meters. The driver was able to free himself from the vehicle and swim to the bank. His co-driver (40) alerted the police and provided first aid. The Swiss man was taken to hospital with injuries of an unspecified degree.
Police make fun of you
The police assume that the driver confused the brake and accelerator pedals. The Austrian authority makes fun of the Swiss on social media. It is written that he wanted to apply to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond. “The attempt to imitate the legendary submersible Lotus Esprit from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ with his sports car backfired.”
On the website of the local fire brigade, the head of operations speaks of an out-of-the-ordinary operation for which “a lot of tact” was necessary. “But together with the five fire service divers, the mountain balloon and the crane of the tow truck, my team managed to carefully fish the vehicle out of the lake.”
The laborious recovery took around three hours. A total of 31 men from the Innerschwand and Mondsee fire brigade were deployed. (vof)