Newly-purchased $300K sports car wrecked in Fairfax County crash

Photo/Fairfax County Police

Police in Virginia shared a photo of a newly-purchased sports car completely destroyed in a collision on Saturday.

Fairfax County police say the McLaren 720S was purchased Friday, and totaled the day after.

The car, which goes for about $300,000, was wrecked in a crash in Great Falls.

Officials say they attribute the cause of the crash to speed.

Investigators say the driver was taken to the hospital with only non-life threatening injuries.

"A reminder to slow down, or it could cost you," says Fairfax County Police.

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