Insurers hit by £300,000 bill after Pagani test crash

Repairs on a Pagani Zonda that was crashed on a test drive near Aberdeen have cost the insurance company a whopping £300,000.

The 220mph supercar collided with a telegraph pole and then went through a fence on a test drive along a country lane last September. As a new Pagani Zonda costs in the region of £528,000, the insurers decided it was salvageable and sent it off to Modena in Italy, where the cars are made.

Aviva, the unlucky insurers involved, said: "This is the biggest insurance pay-out we have had for repairs to a private car in the UK."