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We live in a truly unique and incredible time in automotive history, where buying a 500+ horsepower car is as simple as going to a local dealership. There are no special drivers licenses and classes you are required to take in order to buy a powerful supercar, which is why the Internet is littered with pictures of crashed performance cars.
The OC Register reports that the crash involved only the Mustang, pointing to a possible lack of driver skill which caused this Shelby GT500 to wind up in a ditch, pinning the door closed and trapping the driver.
A call came in around 9:45 am last Wednesday, in Newport Beach, California. The driver of the black Shelby Mustang was reportedly driving along the West Coast Highway when he lost control of the car, driving up and embankment before driving down into a roadside ditch. We can imagine that must have been quite the scary ride.
It must have been even scarier when the unnamed driver realized he was trapped in the Shelby, his door pinned shut by the ditch. The driver had to be rescued by police and firefighters, and the Shelby is almost certainly totaled. A bad day of bad driving, but the driver survived with minimal injuries, so he’ll live to drive (hopefully a bit more safely) another day.
