A road accident in the chain, most likely caused by speeding, occurred in Japan, 12 luxury cars, worth a total of three million, bumping into each other on a slippery stretch of highway because of rain.
Eight vehicles brand Ferrari, a Lamborghini, three Mercedes and a Toyota Prius are among the vehicles involved in collision on Highway Chugoku (western), caused by the lead car driver who lost control of the steering wheel column, according to witnesses.

Images broadcast on television showed bodies of Ferrari - mostly red, emblematic Italian - and remains spread over 400 meters.
Twenty racing cars ran on the section of highway Sunday morning when his Ferrari hit the parapet at the head of convoy protection, police sent. Drivers slowed back immediately, but too late.

"I never saw anything like this," said Lt. Eiichiro telephone Kamitani, responsible for safety on the highway. "Ferrari's number rarely run so high." Police reported that ten people, five men and five women, were injured slightly in the accident. "Most were probably on the way to Hiroshima", located 130 km east, where a gathering place for racing cars, Kamitani said.

"Speed ​​is a possibility, but currently we have established the cause of the accident," he added.

Prius and other Toyota caught in the accident were not part of the convoy.

According to a witness quoted by TBS television, "cars were 140-160 miles per hour" while the speed is limited in this area to 80 miles per hour.

One Ferrari cars was apparently a F430, a model that can run 320 km per hour.

Lieutenant Kamitani said that the car at the head of the convoy was headed by a businessman for 60 years originally from Chikushino, a town on the island of Kyushu (south).

Japanese media has calculated the cost of collision about 300 million yen (2.8 million).