A man trying to flee the California Highway Patrol wrecked his girlfriend’s Maserati brand yipeta after crashing into a retaining wall and leaving the vehicle stuck under a bridge on an Oakland highway, authorities on Tuesday.
“The driver is lucky to be alive. The owner of the Maserati … was not so lucky,” the California Road Patrol (CHP) wrote in a social media post. in which photographs of the shattered luxury vehicle were included.
Police said the 32-year-old driver was speeding on Monday when a patrol officer tried to stop him.
He accelerated to more than 160 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour) and then took an exit, deviating at a bend, climbing a retaining wall and ending just below the road, Agent David Arias said on Tuesday. , spokesman for the CHP in Oakland.
The man, who was traveling alone, complained of pain and was taken to a hospital, Arias noted.
“It was a miracle he didn’t have any more injuries because the whole area where his head was supposed to be sank. He had to bend down or something,” he commented.
Arias said the man faces charges of reckless evasion.