Two historic racers, a Lister-Jaguar Knobbly and a Mercedes-Benz 300SLS Porter Special collided in dramatic fashion at the Goodwood 73rd Members’ Meeting. While no-one was injured in the crash, the injuries to the priceless Jaguar and Mercedes, taken from the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, were near fatal.

Goodwood 73rd Members’ Meeting

Via: motoring research

A Berlin toddler crashed his father’s Mercedes on Sunday, after taking the keys and managing to start it up

Two-year-old Mirancan crashed the car at around 10am on Sunday in the Lichtenrade area of Berlin.

He not only took the keys while his father was sleeping, but took a stool with him to the lift – so he could reach the buttons.

Unlocking his father’s Mercedes with the remote control key fob was no problem, and he soon started up the vehicle, which had been left in first gear.

Witnesses reported seeing the silver Mercedes estate shoot out from its parking space and hit a post.

A police spokesman told the BZ newspaper: “Only when witnesses looked into the car did they saw the little boy squatting on the driver’s seat.”

Nobody was injured in the crash.

Via: The Local

The pictures were taken in and around Boston , Massachusetts by Leslie Jones, who was staff photographer at the Boston-Herald Traveler newspaper from 1917 to 1956. Mr. Jones captured everything that happened in the city for five decades and when he died in 1967, his family donated a vast collection of 34,000 prints to the Boston Public Library.

They included these fascinating photos of vintage car wrecks from the great motoring boom. Motor cars became affordable to the masses for the first time in the 1920s. By the end of the decade a Model T Ford cost $298, just a fraction of the $1,200 it cost in 1909.

The introduction of hire purchase also made it much easier for members of the public to buy cars, and by 1929, 20 per cent of Americans were on the road. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors were all competing for the boom in business and by the time the depression hit in 1929, Ford was producing more than one car every minute.

Technology meant these early cars were capable of achieving speeds of up to 50 miles per hour – but safety measures were nowhere near as advanced as they are today. Add in the fact drivers didn’t need to pass a test before they got behind the wheel, and it’s easy to see why accidents were frequent and often spectacular.

Thanks to Thor for the tip.

The following video is a compilation of all the best or worst, depending on how you look at it, crashes of open track days on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The thing about the Nürburgring is, it does not forgive errors. Misjudging one of its 154 turns means, best-case scenario, you’ll end up in the Armco with your car and your ego severely bruised.  Though seemingly a miracle, it looks as though none of the driver’s in the highlight real were injured.

Carscoop via Jalopnik

Yesterday, the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series was spied testing around the Nürburgring.  Today, the Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series was spied crashing on the Nürburgring.  Not exactly the publicity Mercedes-Benz was hoping for, but as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity.  Though your supercar bursting into flames shortly after it crashed may be the exception.

The SLS AMG Black Series accident happened on the Nordschleife at the part called “Döttinger Höhe”, a long straight about 2,5km (1.5 miles) long where the Black Series can reach speeds close to 180 mph.

The E-Unit rescue team and the ambulance arrived within minutes to help these AMG test drivers who according to our photographer were uninjured.

Thanks to our good friend Andrus for the tip and GMotors for the photos

In order to make a hatchback that can handle the Nürburgring, Mercedes handed the A-Class over to their AMG division. Adding a more rigid suspension, massive wheels and a body kit, all propelled by a new engine that utilizes F1 technology and a Heldex all-wheel drive system.

The new Mercedes A45 AMG has been at the Nürburgring undergoing testing and as you can see from the photos captured by a spy photographer, the testing didn’t quite go as planned.

Mercedes A45 AMG Crashes at Nürburgring

The Mercedes A 45 AMG prototype, with its new 330bhp 2.0-litre turbo engine and all-wheel-drive system with AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-speed dual clutch transmission, crashed on the Nordschleife in a very high speed part of the ring. According to eyewitnesses, the car was doing over 100 mph, when it came out of the Fuchsröhre, and then crashed into the right guardrail. The front end was heavily damaged, as were parts of the rear and the front window. The airbags were also deployed, which is probably a large part of why the driver was not injured and walked away from the car on his own.

Mercedes A45 AMG Crashes at Nürburgring

The Mercedes A 45 AMG is scheduled for its public debut in early 2013.  Also interesting to note is that one of the emergency vehicles is a Dodge, strange considering the Nürburgring’s location.  Thanks to our good friend Andrus and GMotors.co.uk for the tip.