Test driver, not owner, claims on insurance after crash
Aviva is paying £300,000 to repair a 220mph Pagani Zonda S, damaged in a test drive accident near Aberdeen last September after the car hit a telegraph pole and smashed through a fence, the Telegraph reports.
Aviva has shipped it to the manufacturers in Modena in Italy for repair. Aviva said it is thought to be one of the highest ever pay-outs in the UK. A spokesman said: ''This is the biggest insurance pay-out we have had for repairs to a private car in the UK. This is out of the ordinary for an insurer.
''An Aviva representative was asked to inspect a badly-damaged supercar after the insurer's policy-holder, who had been test-driving the supercar, lost control on a narrow country road and collided side-on with a telegraph pole before careering through a fence.
Repairable
''Although the vehicle was badly damaged, Aviva decided that the car may be repairable and set about making arrangements for the car to be shipped across to Modena, Italy, home of Pagani, the vehicle manufacturer.
''There are roughly only 10 Zondas produced per year and they are painstakingly constructed.''
The insurance claim was lodged by the test driver, not the owner of the car.
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