A driver, Joey Baptiste, admitted to careless driving after crashing a £100,000 Ferrari owned by former Dragon's Den contestant Ross Mendham. Witnesses reported Baptiste 'showing off' before losing control of the vehicle and crashing into a cycle rack in Norwich, Norfolk.
A driver was showing off when he mounted a pavement and crashed a £100,000 Ferrari owned by a Dragon's Den star, a court has heard. Joey Baptiste, 41, has pleaded guilty to careless driving after smashing a Ferrari F430 in Norwich, Norfolk last year. The supercar, which was owned by former Dragon's Den contestant Ross Mendham, smashed into a cycle rack and narrowly missed a jogger. Baptiste appeared at Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court on January 2, where he admitted to careless driving.
He had previously denied driving without due care and attention, claiming the car had suffered a 'mechanical failure'. Baptiste changed his plea to guilty as he had 'lost communication' with Mr Mendham - so the vehicle could not be tested. The Ferrari was written off following the crash. Mendham was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the crash which happened shortly before 5pm on March 17, last year. CCTV footage showed the car, worth more than £100,000, smashing into four bike racks, before coming to halt as it billowed smoke. Joey Baptiste (pictured) appeared at Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court on January 2 where he admitted to careless driving CCTV showed the Italian sportscar crashing into the rack on the pavement, throwing up a cloud of debris, before skidding down the road The supercar, which was owned by former Dragon's Den contestant Ross Mendham (pictured), smashed into a cycle rack and narrowly missed a jogger Hollie Davies-Regan, from the Crown Prosecution Service, read a witness account of the incident, which said Baptiste had been 'revving the engine' as he waited at a set of red lights. The witness said they had 'never seen driving quite so bad and quite so fast down that bit of road' and they believed the driver had been 'showing off'. Another witness said that as Baptiste accelerated he 'lost control of the back end of the car' and 'collided' with the bike racks. Neither Baptiste nor Mr Mendham were injured in the cras
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