Rented Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 Crashed by Bridegroom

BAILDON, England — David Gallucci will never forget his wedding day for more than one reason. The bridegroom headed to the ceremony behind the wheel of a screaming yellow Lamborghini Murciélago LP640, rented for the day by his bride as a surprise — and totaled it almost immediately.

He and his best man, Warwick French, were unhurt in the accident. The trip from home to church was only 15 minutes, but Gallucci managed to smash into a fence, flip the car 360 degrees in the air and end up in a ditch.

"The back end skipped out while I was going around the roundabout," explained Gallucci to the British Daily Mail newspaper. His best man added, "We'd barely got the seats warm before we were climbing out the window."

Gallucci called a friend to pick them up in a more prosaic Range Rover, made it to the church on time, took his vows, and only then told his new bride what he had done.

The Lamborghini was a total loss, with damage estimated at more than $267,000. The bride, Abi Pattison-Hart, had paid more than $13,000 to rent the Lambo for the day. Fortunately, about $8,300 of that was a deposit to cover insurance for the supercar.

Inside Line says: Now there's an expensive wedding gift. Perhaps driving lessons might have been a useful engagement present. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent