"Yeah, I got it on Saturday and I wrecked it on Saturday," Dopp said, forcing a half smile. He was one of thousands to enter the contest. During halftime of the BYU football game on Nov. 12, he and the other 9 finalists appeared on the field at halftime. That's when it was announced he had won the car. After Dopp received the keys to the car, he started giving lots of rides to family and friends. He also took a lot of pictures. "It was kind of weird seeing a more expensive car than a house sitting in the same spot,"
Dopp said. "Usually, you see these sitting outside of mansions, not outside a little house here in Santaquin." The crash happened only six hours later. "We were coming up a hill, going around a corner; and as soon as we came up the hill, we either hit some black ice or loose gravel or something, and all of a sudden we just started spinning," Dopp recalled. "We ended up in a field, and I back-ended a couple of fence posts." The car also has a little front-end damage, a puncture in the wheel, and scratches all along the passenger side.
The car couldn't be driven, so Dopp called a towing company to pick it up. The good news in all of this is that Dopp had insurance on the car. It was one of the contest requirements before he could take the keys. "That's what insurance is for," he said. The car will be taken to a Las Vegas body shop Wednesday morning to be fixed. Dopp, who also won $5,000 worth of driving lessons at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele County, says he'll be more careful next time.
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3 comments:
"We were coming up a hill, going around a corner; and as soon as we came up the hill, we either hit some black ice or loose gravel or something, and all of a sudden we just started spinning,"
For which you can read "I'm not used to driving a car with so much power and I put my foot down too hard."
Maybe he should have taken those lessons before he took the car out on the road. Wonder what the premium and excess were like on that insurance policy.
Insurance on a Lambo? $1000 deductible, minimum, I'd bet.
Lurker111
I don't know what I'd do with one other than sell it. It'd get beached on sleeping policemen and it's too small to cram a christmas tree or a set of stepladders in the back.
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