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Rowan Atkinson crashes his McLaren F1.. AGAIN!!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889

Actor Rowan Atkinson is in hospital after reportedly being injured in a car crash in Cambridgeshire.


The Blackadder star is believed to have suffered a minor shoulder injury when the car he was driving hit a tree and lamppost and caught fire.
It is understood the crash happened on the A605 at Haddon near Peterborough at 19:30 BST on Thursday.


Media reports said he walked from the McLaren F1 super car and waited with a motorist until an ambulance arrived.


Firefighters arrived on the scene to put out the fire.
A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Crews brought the fire under control by 8.13pm. They made the vehicle safe and used one hose reel to put out the fire.



"There was one casualty but he was not trapped."


East of England Ambulance Service said a man was taken to Peterborough City Hospital with "a minor shoulder injury" following the crash.


Atkinson achieved fame through BBC shows Not The Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder, before gaining international recognition in Mr Bean, in which his hapless character drives an old Mini.
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This time I guess his car is totaled. Atleast he is not seriously injured.
 
Considering you sit in the middle of the car, to injur his shoulder he must have hit the tree pretty hard...

It was wet out last night, too.
 
'Tis a shame. His was the burgundy F1 they raced against a Veyron in Abu Dhabi on Top Gear (a race that appeared to me to be staged, but that's a topic for another day . . .). Glad he's OK.

I wonder whether there is enough left of the car that McLaren would be willing to rebuild it. I would think since it's a CF monocoque the fire probably pretty well destroyed it.
 
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A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Crews brought the fire under control by 8.13pm. They made the vehicle safe and used one hose reel to put out the fire.
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It is not clear from the image, but it looks like a minor one. Can't say for sure.
 
RichUK said:
I wonder how much he gets from insurance.
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One would imagine he has good collectable-car insurance on it. Don't these cars go for a few million dollars now, to the extent they're available on the market? If memory serves there were only 70 or 80 non-GTR versions made. (EDIT - apparently there were only 64 F1 road cars built. Not sure how many of those have been totaled.)
 
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Mr. Pedantic said:
^That. I hope he doesn't buy a Veyron, I would so hate to see one of those totalled...
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He said during the Top Gear interview that he had something like 37,000 miles on the F1. I say good for him, for actually using the car and letting other people see it rather than buying it and just hiding it in a garage somewhere.
 
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