A rare supercar which hit a telegraph pole and smashed through a fence is the subject of a 'record' £300,000-plus insurance claim - though the owner wasn't even at the wheel at the time.
The exclusive Pagani Zonda S - apparently worth more than half-a-million-pounds - was crashed by a test driver on a country road on the outskirts of Aberdeen, the Scottish Daily Record reports.
And despite reportedly significant damage to the car's elegant body, it has been shipped back to Italy in a bid to restore it to its former glory - possibly by May.
Horacio Pagani, the visionary creator of the car, allegedly decided himself that it could be fixed, claiming that "a Zonda is like a fine Italian suit - it is made to measure". The cars are renowned for their painstaking construction and use of expensive materials, such as carbon fibre.
Strangely, Zondas appear to be a well-documented sight on the streets of Aberdeen, cropping up in the Wikipedia page for the car, and in several YouTube videos.
Capable of accelerating to 60mph in under four seconds, the Zonda can touch 220mph flat out, and is considered one of the purest rivals to Ferrari and Lamborghini to have emerged in recent years.
The marque is a favourite of enthusiastic Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, who said during a road test of a roadster variant: "If you are 10 and you are watching this right now, it's exactly as good as you think it is. It is actually that good".
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Aviva, which insures the test driver, called it "the biggest payout for repair costs to a private car we have ever seen".
However, the crash is only a snip compared to some of the world's costliest claims.
According to Wrecked Exotics, the Zonda crash would struggle to make the top 10 - the 'cheapest' accident in which cost US $500,000 ( £334,500). The bill for the most expensive crashes runs into millions of pounds.
