David Cameron was the first on the scene of a fatal crash that claimed the life of a Ferrari driver after the sports car hit a tree on a Norfolk back road at the weekend.
The former PM is believed to have been on a shooting weekend nearby when he stumbled across the grisly aftermath of the crash just after 2.55pm on Saturday.
Officers from his close protection team jumped from their car and found the driver of the red Ferrari 360 and his passenger seriously injured in the wreckage.
Cameron’s team called the emergency services and provided first aid to the injured pair, a man and a woman both in their 30s.
A source close to the former PM described the scene as ‘very harrowing’, and the Ferrari driver was declared dead before reaching hospital.
A spokesperson for Norfolk Police told MailOnline: ‘The woman is still in hospital, the passenger, in a serious but not life-threatening condition.’
They also added the model of car was a Ferrari 360 – a two-seater sports car made from 1999 until 2004.
The crash took place at the junction of the B1108 Watton Road and the narrow single-track Bow Hill, just south of the village of Marlingford and around six miles west of Norwich.
Former PM David Cameron was the first on the scene of the fatal accident
A man in his 30s had been driving a red Ferrari 360 similar to the one above when it left the road and hit a tree fatally injuring him and seriously injuring his female passenger
The B-road was closed after the crash while emergency services, including an ambulance, worked. It reopened six hours later at around 9pm.
Users on a Norfolk community Facebook group paid tribute to the unknown driver with one saying: ‘Probably a really hardworking man driving his pride and joy.’
Another added: ‘A family has lost a son, brother or father.’
Others commented to say how sad they were to hear the news.
The South Norfolk district, where the crash happened, saw traffic 174 traffic collisions from January to August last year, according to the latest figures from Norfolk Police.
This is higher than every other district in the county and an increase of 29 compared to the same time period in the district in 2023.
This latest crash comes only months after two vehicles collided at the very same junction, with police, fire and ambulance crews rushing to the scene.
The accident in October saw one person taken to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital by road ambulance and the closure of the B1108.
In March last year, a man driving a Ferrari F430 belonging to Dragons’ Den winner Ross Mendham lost control in a 20mph zone in Norwich city centre.
The car hit a tree at a junction where the narrow Bow Hill meets the B1108 west of Norwich
Joey Baptiste, 41, pleaded guilty to careless driving on January 2 of this year, after he smashed the £100,000 vehicle into a cycle rack and narrowly missed a jogger.
Mendham was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the crash. Neither of the men were injured.
Norfolk Police want to speak to witnesses either of the crash or ‘the manner of driving prior to the incident’, in which the Ferrari ‘left the road’.
Anyone with information or relevant dashcam footage should contact them via email, phone or online, citing the reference number 36/5923/25.
