Mel Gibson, the 54-year-old actor whose name brings new meaning to the word "troubled," crashed his Maserati into a hillside Sunday evening. No injuries, no passengers, no alcohol say police. [MSNBC]

The owner of this factory fresh 458 Italia couldn't keep the damn thing for more than a day without crashing it outside Ferrari's Maranello facility, according to the person who shot this before/after video. Save the 458s!

I grew up on a farm. Occasionally drunks would swerve off the road and take out huge swaths of corn. Never once did a rally driver plow through our fields. Especially in a Fiat 500 Abarth.

Welcome back to Car Horror Stories, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today we have the worst test drive ever, how to turn a Jeep into rolling artillery, and why a Toyota MR2 makes a crappy golf cart.

Welcome to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today we have a college kid whose Ford Aspire ate his pants, an ass-kicking grandmother, and a very bad date.

A Wisconsin man was horrified to find his car had been towed from long term parking a crushed the next day with his Father and Grandfather sitting inside! The hitch? Both were already cremated, stored inside urns. [WSAU via VWVortex]

The modern high-performance car is an amazing beast, a fast, comfortable way to cover great distances at high speed. Most of them are also remarkably safe — these accidents, courtesy of Wrecked Exotics, left their drivers all but unharmed.

A German representative of Lamborghini, possibly a salesman, took a female passenger on a Gallardo joy ride through Germany, driving recklessly and eventually crashing the car. He died instantly. The passenger died as paramedics worked on her. [BILD via WCF]

Bob Lutz, '66 Opel Kadett, unknown European proving ground. Lutz — who retired from GM on Friday — had just rolled the car. Wonder why we love this guy? This is it. [via TTAC]

According to the Texas Transportation Institute, traffic used to suck. Now it sucks even more. Nice to know some things are dependable. [TTI via The Infrastructurist]

An Australian Muslim woman was killed when her Burkha flew into the wheels of a go-kart she was riding, crushing her throat.

Over nine million General Motors pickup trucks built in the '70s and '80s have a tendency to explode in otherwise non-fatal accidents. This is FairWarning.org's detailed look at how an added "feature" made those trucks deadly. —Ed.

Bengals wide reciever Chris Henry has died from head injuries after falling out of the back of a pickup truck. According to reports, during a "domestic situation" with his fiance, Henry jumped into the bed as she drove off. [Deadspin]

Another Pagani Zonda F has crashed, this third smash-up occurring in Hong Kong. The lunatic-machine's carbon fiber body, shattered and spread all over the street like a ghastly automotive murder scene is almost too gruesome to share. Full gallery below.

On the way home from work in Louisville, KY, reader Aleksey spotted this crinkled up semi truck resting just past the low bridge the driver had used to turn his trailer into a convertible.

"It just started smoking like crazy. And it smelled terrible. I didn't see anything in the mirror, so I was like, ‘I wonder where it went?'" Where it went below, but be warned, it's troubling and NSFW.

The Wienermobile seems to be popping up quite a bit in recent weeks, this time venturing off course and inserting itself into a Wisconsin home while whistling 'Oh I wish I were an Os-car Mayer Wiener!'

A tanker truck and several other semi trucks were involved in a large accident on northbound I-75 in Metro Detroit. The tanker impacted with such force that it exploded, collapsing the Nine Mile Rd overpass.