SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Utah truck driver who won a $380,000 Lamborghini in a contest pronounced on Wednesday a vegetable vegetable patch of ice was to censure for his crashing the high-performance sports automobile 6 just hours after he took receive of it.

Dave Dopp, 34, who was awarded the automobile final month in a “Joe Schmo-to-Lambo” giveaway good sponsored by a preference store chain, wrecked the automobile on Saturday dusk in the town of Santaquin, south of Provo, whilst giving a ride to a friend.

The bright, orange green Lamborghini LP 640 careened off the road through a blockade and into a field, nutritious endless physique damage, though no a single was hurt.

“We were coming up on a hill on the south end of Santaquin, came around a corner, and I wasn’t even going that fast,” he pronounced in an interview. “A automobile was entrance towards us. I’m sure I wasn’t starting quick or anything. We usually strike a vegetable vegetable patch of black ice and finished up in a field.”

Dennis Howard, executive of open safety in Santaquin, pronounced it appeared Dopp was merely “unfamiliar” with the vehicle, adding, “I do not consider he was used to 700 horsepower.”

Dopp estimates he gave rides to thirty to 40 people during the 6 hours that he had receive of the car.

“I longed for to make it a good experience for everyone that I knew,” he said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event to float in a Lamborghini, let alone own one.”

Dopp’s greeting to winning the automobile was videotaped at a Brigham Young University football diversion in November. The footage shows Dopp responding first with a glassy look, afterwards jumping up and down when he satisfied he had unequivocally won the car.

The competition was orderly to encourage recognition and diagnosis of singular neurological diseases.

For the 9,100 residents of the rural village of Santaquin it was large headlines when Dopp won the automobile and bigger headlines when he wrecked it.

“It’s the only Lamborghini I’ve towed. I’ve never had a Lamborghini before,” pronounced the physical education instructor of Alexander’s Towing in Santaquin, who asked not to be identified.

Dopp pronounced the Lamborghini has given been shipped to Las Vegas for repairs.

When he gets the automobile back, Dopp pronounced he would expected put the automobile up for sale.

“I’m a father of 6 children. It’s a good blessing to have it and knowledge it, though I’m seeking at offered it and shopping a more unsentimental automobile for a family and compensate off some bills.”

(Editing by Steve Gorman and Peter Bohan)

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