British Driver Totals Ferrari An Hour After Purchase

A British driver has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. Local police called it a "miracle escape," but the car was not so lucky. South Yorkshire Police posted Twitter photos of the smoking, wrecked car, saying it "went airborne (and) burst into flames" beside a highway in northern England. The Ferrari 430 Scuderia, worth about 200,000 pounds ($260,000) new, ended up a burning heap in a field. The police said in a Facebook statement that the driver "only had minor cuts and bruises" after Thursday’s smash, but they also detected "a sense of damaged pride."