Recently TMZ reported that Vince McMahon was involved in a bad car accident last week around 9 AM in Connecticut on Thursday. According to the report Vince McMahon’s Bentley was traveling north on Route 15 in Westport when the car rammed into the back of a BMW 430 and collided with a median wooden-beam guardrail.
The driver of the BMW, Barbara Doran, recently shared some photos of the vehicles and also posted a statement on Facebook which reads as follows:
“Debris from the collision flew into the highway and a third car reportedly collided with the debris. It was noted that the damage was so severe that the airbags deployed in McMahon’s Bentley and the BMW. Vince McMahon was then issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving and following too closely resulting in an accident.
“Lucky to have survived a horrific car crash on the way up to catch the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard last Thursday morning. Both cars totaled. Vince McMahon @Mr. McMahon /#VinceMcMahon, former chair of WWE, hit me going 80-90mph as I drove in the right lane of the narrow Merritt Highway (built in the 1930s). I and the dog are mostly fine, but was lucky to have kept control of the car, more or less, as I shot off the road after being catapulted over 100 yards.
An unmarked state trooper had been following him as he sped in and out of cars down the highway and had just turned his lights on to pull Mcmahon over, but he was not in time. Both front wheels of McMahon’s Bentley were sheared off, and his airbags deployed, probably saving him from significant injury.
The trooper told me afterwards that McMahon saw me last minute and swerved, smashing into my left rear, but that if he had hit me full on, there might’ve been a very different ending for me.
Amazing that no other cars were hit, and that I got out of the car, hands shaking for a good twenty minutes, but otherwise seemingly unscathed (stiff neck later, etc., and full battery of hospital scans and bloodwork. Time will tell I am told.).
Oddly, Hulk Hogan, who made McMahon’s fame and fortune, died about the same time as the accident.
Photos of my car and his car here.”