Woe Be US. If Only He Had Crashed a Corvette, No One Would Have Noticed.
Ferrari Enzo

On February 21st of this year, a 2003 Ferrari Enzo crashed and split in two on the Pacific Coast Highway near Decker Canyon in Malibu, California. In the first few hours after the crash, there was much confusion as to who had crashed the $1 million car. Three weeks later that mystery has only deepened, as James Bond seems to be alive and well in LA.

  • The owner of the car seems to be Swedish national Stefan Erikssen, a 44-year-old former executive of Gizmondo, a convicted criminal and counterfeiter, and alleged member of a Swedish Mafia crime ring.
  • Erikssen, who suffered only a bloody lip in the accident, claimed that the driver of the car was a German guy named "Dietrich" who ran off into the hills after the smashup of the red sports car which was racing with a Mercedes SLR at 162 mph.
  • Try as they may, the California police could not find the mysterious German man running through Malibu bush country. There is speculation that "Dietrich" may have never existed or that he may be a "Dietrich" connected to Gizmondo’s German operation.
  • Police say Stefan Erikssen was intoxicated at the time of the accident.
  • Police found blood on the driver’s side airbag, which they claim was the only airbag to deploy, however the above photograph seems to show both airbags deployed.
  • Erikssen claimed that the Mercedes SLR they were racing dropped off a passenger after the spectacular airborne crash and then sped away.
  • Police say there was no Mercedes SLR. At first police suspected that Eriksson spent the previous night drinking with friends in Beverly Hills when they decided to race the Enzo against the now “make believe” silver Mercedes SLR.
  • The Ferrari Enzo that crashed was in reality owned by the Bank of Scotland which was in the process of repossessing the car, when the ingenious Swede shipped the rare vehicle to the United States. The car had European registration tags and nothing had been done to make it street legal in California.
  • Britain’s Scotland Yard is now investigating whether the expensive silver Mercedes SLR, the car that the California police say does not exist, is by chance the same car that has been reported stolen there.
  • The passenger who was dropped off by the “make believe” Mercedes is an American, known only as "Trevor" who gave his address as a dock slip in Marina del Rey where the $14 million yacht that is usually berthed there is now missing.
  • After the spectacular crash, the mysterious "Trevor" waved down a passing vehicle and asked to borrow the driver’s cell phone. The good Samaritan soon found that "Trevor" had slipped a fully loaded magazine clip underneath the driver’s seat. However, no firearm has been found.
  • Shortly after police arrived at the crash scene, two men appeared claiming to be "homeland security officials" with the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority. When they waved their badges at deputies, they were permitted into the crash scene and they eventually took Eriksson away.
  • The Ferrari’s owner, Stefan Eriksson, who had no California driver’s license, produced an identity card which showed that he too, although a multimillionaire Swedish playboy and video games entrepreneur, was a deputy commissioner of the very same San Gabriel Transit Authority Police’s anti-terrorism division.
  • There exists a video clip of Stefan Eriksson tooling around Beverly Hills a couple of months before this crash in his other Ferrari - a black Enzo. Coincidentally, that vehicle too is not registered in California, as it sports a European license plate indicating it was registered in Manchester, UK in 2004. View Video Clip

Now police investigators in the wreck of the $1 million dollar car are asking how a such a small private transit company with only five employees could create its own police department. Another Turn in Ferrari Saga (link now dead) from the "LA Times":

The San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority is a tiny, privately run organization that provides bus rides to disabled people and senior citizens. It operates out of an auto repair shop. Maiwandi is the owner of Homer’s Auto Service in Monrovia and is also one of three San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority commissioners. Maiwandi said he started the nonprofit organization after receiving a bus in a trade for several motorcycles. He decided to use that bus and four others he later purchased to help transport disabled people in his community. … He said he formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority Police Department shortly afterward in part because he has long been interested in police work. He also found that having a police department allowed him to do background checks on potential volunteers more quickly and seek federal money for security on the buses.

Now Mr. Maiwandi is claiming that his agency is being unfairly tarnished because of his association with the Ferrari crash and was quoted saying: "I wish he was driving a Corvette."

The Before Video ~ Unlicensed driver Stefan Erikssen Tooling About LA in his "other" unregistered Enzo, the black one.

Updated: "The Ferrari Twist"