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Ever since James Dean lobbed his Porsche with fatal results, there's been an inevitable sense of potential doom lingering over every rich, famous young man with a powerful motor at his disposal.

Just last month the Mercedes SLR McLaren owned by 'Prince' Naseem Hamed was involved in a spectacular accident that saw the McMerc stuffed at a predicted repair cost in excess of £200k.

Ian Wright's Ferrari 360 Spider wallop looks relatively tame with just an estimated repair cost of £30k on the £110k car, and you don't even have to be in it to win it - one of Jay Kay's acquaintances managed to write off his £180k purple Lamborghini Diablo SE30 for him on Park Lane.

Luckily for Jay, his record company bosses at Sony replaced the (at the time) ultra-rare 'Anniversary' edition car at their expense.

But it's not always the star's fault. Poor old England keeper David Seaman was accelerating through a motorway services when, unexpectedly, a car pulled out in front of him, resulting in a rear-ender that remodelled the nose of his shiny new Jaguar XK8.

The irony? The car in front was being driven by a Top Gear work experience woman.