8 March 2007: Top Gear

Police in Surrey are appealing for witnesses to what may have been the world's costliest road accident.

The incident happened in heavy rain on a 40mph section of the B375 near Chertsey, where it is understood that an eight-litre Bugatti Veyron went out of control while doing about 100mph. Nobody was hurt.

The hand-crafted Bugatti Veyron costs around £840,000 and its engine develops 1001 horsepower, making it the world's most expensive and fastest street-legal car. It has a top speed in excess of 250mph, so it's perhaps just as well that the driver was going slowly; at only 2-and-a-half times the speed limit.