The owner of nine supercars worth millions of pounds which were damaged when their transporter tipped over is wealthy petrolhead Darren Edmonds.
The supercars – including a £271,000 red Lamborghini Aventador and £181,000 orange Aston Martin DB11 – belong to Mr Edmonds who has a fleet of more than 200 luxury vehicles and quipped joked ‘better dust off the T-cut’.
The 54-year-old runs Leicester-based Everyman Motor Racing and regularly posts pictures and videos from race events including at the former Top Gear test track in Dunsford, Surrey which was captioned ‘200mph club anyone’.
At the time of the crash on Wednesday evening the transporter was moving the supercars from Brands Hatch circuit in Kent to another track day event at Goodwood Racecourse near Chichester.
In a statement the company confirmed nobody was injured in the crash including the HGV driver – understood to be Everyman’s ‘Transport Specialist’ Richard Kilbride.
The statement added: ‘We are immensely proud of HGV driver Richard whose reflexes and quick thinking averted what could have been a nasty accident with other road users.
‘The most important thing [is] no-one was injured at all.
‘We might have to brush the dust off the T-Cut through.’
Mr Edmonds appears to have worked for Everyman Racing since 1990, rising from ‘tea boy’ to be the owner of the business.
Police raced to the side of the A20 near Farningham, Kent, on Wednesday evening after reports that the transporter carrying the luxury motors had overturned.
One witness to the crash commented on Facebook: ‘I have to say I think your driver was a very lucky man after talking to him at the scene it could of been a hell of a lot worse.’
A spokesperson for Kent Police said: ‘Kent Police was called at 7.57pm on Wednesday 23 August to a report that a car transporter had overturned on the A20 near Farningham.
‘Officers attended the scene where the driver reported a minor injury. The road was closed while arrangements were made to recover the vehicles.’
