What you see above is the remnants of a McLaren 12C after it crashed on a German Autobahn at 240 km/h. What’s amazing is not that the driver actually survived the accident – after all, this car has a super strong MonoCell – but rather the fact that a 71-year old man was doing 240!

The cause of the accident is, reportedly, a flat tire that blew up at high speed and caused the car to flip several times before coming to stop by crashing into the guardrails. So yea, this crash had  pretty much everything. The carbon fiber body of McLaren 12C is pretty much mincemeat now, but as mentioned the carbon MonoCell safety cage has done its job brilliantly, remaining largely intact and protecting the occupants from the main force of the impact.

Incidents like this will give the German green party more excuses to pursue their long-sought ambition to impose a speed limit on the entire Autobahn network, or at the very least reduce the number of derestricted routes. A much better thing to do, in our opinion, is for them to stop 70+ year olds from driving super cars. Not to be an agist, but a man of that age would have difficulties driving at 24 km/h, let alone 240.

Via Autogespot