That is the heart-stopping second a driver behind the wheel of considered one of Britain’s quickest vehicles slammed right into a household residence after shedding management on an icy highway.
The £53,000 Audi RS3 hatchback, which may attain blistering speeds of 184mph, ended up wrecked in a pile of rubble after damaging two homes in Leeds.
The motive force is alleged to have misplaced management on a bend within the icy situations, with the automobile then bouncing off a inexperienced 4×4 and skidding throughout three gardens.
CCTV footage of the crash confirmed the blue car flying off the highway and tearing by a wall moments earlier than it crunches to a sudden cease after blasting right into a bay window.
Smoke may be seen billowing from the wrecked Audi after it skidded off the highway and slammed right into a home in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on December 27
The aftermath of the crash exhibits the Audi embedded within the entrance room of the household residence after its driver misplaced management on a bend
Two drivers are then seen scrambling away from the wrecked motor as smoke begins billowing out from the bonnet.
As one of many males tries to run away from the destroyed hatchback, he’s seen slipping over within the highway – probably on some ice – and falling flat on his again.
Remarkably, regardless of the trial of destruction attributable to the runaway Audi, no one was injured.
The carnage occurred on Tuesday, December 27, at 9.30am in Roundhay Grove, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Eye witnesses mentioned the ‘the entire home shook’ because the hatchback ploughed into it earlier than coming to relaxation in a cloud of mud and particles.
At one level within the CCTV footage the £50,000 Audi may be seen hovering by the air (pictured) earlier than it crashed by the entrance room of a home in Roundhay Grove, Leeds
One of many folks within the Audi may be seen fleeing from the wrecked motor as smoke begins to billow from its engine block. A second particular person is then seen leaving the automobile
The blue Audi brought about important harm to 2 vehicles and went throughout three gardens however remarkably no one was injured in the course of the carnage
Photos from the aftermath of the crash present rubble strewn throughout gardens and the road, with a small space cordoned off by pink and white tape.
One of many homes – understood to have been present process renovation – was left with a gaping gap in it the place the Audi had careened into the entrance room.
The bay window of the home subsequent door was additionally ruined, with its home windows smashed and fittings crumpled.
In the meantime, two giant tyre tracks have been gouged into the grass of one of many properties broken within the post-Boxing Day collision.
And a inexperienced 4×4, parked within the drive of the primary home, is known to have been written off in the course of the accident, after being clipped by the Audi.
Residents on the street had been calling for pace humps to be put in in highway after a spate of anti-social driving.
The Audi RS3 is marketed as probably the most highly effective vehicles on the highway and might do 0-62mph in 3.8 seconds
A parked inexperienced 4×4 (pictured) was written off after it was hit by the uncontrolled Audi
Hearth fighters and police raced to the scene which was cordoned off for a painstaking forensic examination.
One one who was there mentioned: ‘Police have mentioned it was an accident and the automobile slipped on the bend crashing into the homes.
‘The fireplace engine that got here to help nearly did the identical. One home has simply been renovated, no one was residence.
‘Subsequent door the occupants have been in the home when it occurred. Nobody in the home has been injured.’
The Audi RS3 is marketed as one of many quickest and strongest vehicles on the highway and might do 0-62mph in 3.8 seconds.
MailOnline has approached West Yorkshire Police for touch upon the crash.
