Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A Ferrari Enzo worth more than $1 million crashed at 120 mph outside Los Angeles -- setting off a search for the driver and drawing howls from auto fans. While speculation abounded that the owner could be a Hollywood star, Los Angeles County, Calif., authorities said Swedish millionaire Stefan Eriksson, 44, is the owner. Police were investigating whether Eriksson is the noted game designer and driver who has raced Ferraris in Europe. Advertisement Eriksson said he was just a passenger, and that a German acquaintance was driving when the car slammed into a Pacific Coast Highway power pole and broke up Tuesday. Eriksson said the driver ran away, but investigators said only the driver's side airbag had deployed in the crash. Authorities were investigating reports the Ferrari -- one of just 400 of its kind ever made -- was racing a Mercedes. "He destroyed one of the finest cars on Earth, maybe the finest," Ferrari owner and author Chris Banning told the Los Angeles Times. "It's like taking a Van Gogh painting and burning it," said Banning, whose "Mulholland Experience" touches on the cult of racing sports cars along the mountainous Pacific Coast Highway. Advertisement
