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DRIVER Ajay Soni looks gutted ? after wrecking his older brother?s ?830,000 Bugatti Veyron.
Onlookers said ?gobsmacked? Ajay, 39, was unable to speak to cops for half an hour after tearing off the French supercar?s front.
Businessman brother Kumar, 41, whose empire includes a car body shop, is said to have ?gone ballistic? when he turned up later.
The car spun three times at high speed in lashing rain near Kumar?s home in Shepperton, Surrey, wiping out an Astra and careering into a tree-lined bank.
Ajay faces a six-month wait to see if cops press charges of driving without due care and attention.
Simon Tarrant, who was in the Astra with his seven-months pregnant girlfriend Jenny Matthews, said they escaped unhurt. Simon, of Ashford, MIddlesex, added: ?We are just grateful to be alive.?
Locals say the Bugatti ? the world?s most expensive car ? was seen zooming past the crash site before the accident.
Hours earlier, Ajay boasted to onlookers it was HIS car and even let people sit inside.
It is thought he ?lost it? while taking it for a spin on Sunday.
According to an eyewitness who arrived on the scene shortly after the accident took place, the Veyron appeared to have been traveling from Shepperton and had just exited a roundabout which leads into a shallow left hand bend. The eyewitness, who has asked to remain anonymous said: "The bend is notorious for standing water on both sides of the carriageway. The Bugatti driver obviously aquaplaned and lost control, hitting the Astra coming the other way. The entire driver?s side of the Astra was destroyed, you could see into the car through a huge crack at the bottom of the door.
Julian Sainsbury from the Virginia Water Motor Company recovered the car and handles all Veyron transportation. He said: "We removed the car to our depot and it has been viewed by an assessor and is now on its way back to the Bugatti factory in Molsheim. When we recovered the car it was facing back in the direction from which it had been traveling. It was very muddy and most of the damage was restricted to the front end with minor damage to most other panels. Police at the scene described it to me as a 50mph accident, there were virtually no skid marks and the airbags hadn?t gone off. The car sounds and looks so fast it probably fooled passers-by."
According to Sainsbury the damage to the Veyron is likely to be less severe than it appears as the car is built along the same principles as a racing car, meaning any damaged parts can be removed and replaced very quickly. The four subframes that underpin the Veyron are very strong and can themselves be relatively easily replaced.
