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Ferrari Hybrid Erlkönig after the accident
Photo: Julian Buchner / NonstopNews
So-called Erlkönige are prototypes of new car models.
If they are tested in normal traffic, they should remain as inconspicuous as possible.
In the vicinity of Sinsheim in Baden-Württemberg, however, such a test drive went quite wrong.
As reported by “Bild” and “Heidelberg24”, a test driver had an accident on Wednesday night with a Ferrari Erlkönig on a district road between Hoffenheim and Balzfeld in the Rhein-Neckar district.
Driver was uninjured
A police spokesman confirmed to SPIEGEL that a 31-year-old driver had an accident with a sports car around midnight.
The man was unharmed.
For a previously unexplained cause, the car hit the guardrails several times and then came to a stop on the street.
The car was destroyed in the accident and had to be towed.
The police could not quantify how great the damage is.
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