Seriously damaged TOYOTA 2000GT

On June 8, 2014 at 9:45 am, a Japanese beech tree of about 30 meters in height and 1.9 meter in diameter growing along the slope of the 156th National highway in Toyama Prefecture fell down across the road.
The tree feel hit the sports car traveling directly below, and a male company employee (28 years) of the Yamato-Koriyama City in Nara Prefecture driving the car was slightly injured with the cuts and bruise in his arm.

As per the police report, the beech tree collapsed from the root and directly hit the bonnet of the sports car.The sports car is the famous “Toyota 2000GT”, and it suffered serious damage by the crushing of the trunk and the branch.

There were no fellow passengers in the car.

The Toyota 2000GT is the most valuable car with total production of only 337 cars. It made the headlines when it was successfully bid for about 1.16 million dollars (about 118 million yen) at the auction held by the M/s.RM auctions that especially handles the classic cars.

As a Japanese car it is one of the most valuable car with a very high price tag, and one of that car is now vanished.