Italian police have been forced to scrap a $475,000 Lamborghini patrol car after it smashed into other vehicles.
The Gallardo coupe, donated to the Italian State Police by the automaker, clipped a car coming out of a service station before ploughing into several parked cars near Cremona in northern Italy, The Sun newspaper reports
The supercar — decked out with the latest high-tech equipment including a refrigerated cooler to transport donor organs — was returning from student job fair where it was showing off the police force's crime fighting arsenal.
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The two officers in the vehicle received minor injuries and no-one else was hurt in the accident.
Since 2004, Lamborghini has donated several of the 412kW V10 machines to help transport organs and act as a highly-visible highway patrol car.
Thirty police officers were specially trained to drive the cars, which are capable of reaching speeds of 320km/h and going from a standing start to 100km/h in just over three seconds.
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