Friday, April 11, 2008

Shane Warne gets a small dose of karma

Cricket legend Shane Warne has crashed his luxury Mercedes into a Melbourne tram — and a local man caught it on camera.
Warne was travelling through a roundabout at Middle Park, in inner Melbourne, about 5pm yesterday when his black Mercedes crashed into the 112 city-bound tram.
Video footage of the incident was captured by local resident Tim Rose and obtained by National Nine News

Mr Rose said he heard the tram's bell ring from his nearby flat followed by the sound of screeching brakes and then a loud crash.
"I was just filming my three-month old boy Toshan and heard the ding, ding, ding and the crash," the Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted him saying.
"That's when I looked up and saw Shane Warne's car, the Mercedes, spin out of control.
"He brought it to a halt, just missing a car that was parked."
Mr Rose's own video footage records his surprised reaction when he discovers the driver's identity. "I think it's Shane Warne," he says after zooming in on the accident scene.
Warne is seen exchanging details with the tram driver and giving him an autograph.

"He spoke to the tram driver, gave his autograph and drove off," Mr Rose said.
A spokeswoman for Warne confirmed to The Age newspaper the cricketer was involved in a crash where a "tram ran into the back of him".
But a Yarra Trams spokesman told the newspaper that trams have the right of way on roundabouts.

Mr Rose, a Hare Krishna devotee, said he plans to sell shards of Warne's broken brake lights on an online auction and give the proceeds to a Krishna food charity.
There was no damage to the tram and no one was injured in the incident, but it did result in a five-minute delay for trams on the 112 route.

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