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Ok, so we've established there are a bunch of folks in Ferraris driving too fast along a wet road that's narrow and full of cars. So how do all of them crash at once?

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They were driving in pairs.

Based on the images this was our original guess, but it's been partially confirmed by a police official who did an interview with the AFP.

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"It's highly possible they were driving in couples," the official said.

Taking eyewitness reports and combining them with the eyewitness reports it becomes clearer how the accident happened.

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The drivers of the Ferraris were lined up with one another as driving in "couples" when they rounded the Chugoku Expressway heading towards the supercar meet-up in Hiroshima. Most of the Ferrari drivers didn't know each other and instead organized the drive on the Internet.

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The lead driver was the Ferrari F430 Scuderia, which was driven by a 60-year-old businessman from Fukuoka.

He came across a slower moving car (probably the Prius seen in the photos) and attempted to pass. While doing so he spun out. A TV eyewitness told broadcaster NHK that "the front car crashed into the left embankment and bounced off towards me."

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Driving in such close formation the cars behind him all reacted, but their proximity created a chain reaction. The white Ferrari 512 hit the back of the black Mercedes and crashed into the guardrail. The other F430 in the group managed to avoid the accident but the two red Ferraris (an F355 and a F360) behind weren't so lucky. Then the next Ferrari F355, attempting to avoid the accident, also crashed into the guard rail.

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Other cars did the same until there were a total of 14 damaged, including a pair of bystanders in Toyotas who had nothing to do with the convoy.

We're hoping someone managed to capture video of the accident to confirm the theory. Regardless of how it happened, it's a sad way to see $3.85 million worth of exotics destroyed.

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Images: NNN, TBS, TV Asahi