McLaren Senna Crashes Into Lexus Dealership; YouTuber Confirmed As Driver

It’s never a good idea to try and showboat in a car in the middle of a very public city street, no matter what kind of car you’re in. It’s really not a good idea, though, if the street is Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles, and the car is one of 500 McLaren Sennas ever made.

A YouTuber found this out the hard way recently when a very public display of tyre smokery ended with  several hundred thousand pounds worth of supercar becoming an unexpected addition to the floor of a Lexus showroom.

A clip of the incident was originally posted on the McLaren Subreddit. It shows a dark green Senna launching into a smokey donut while a crowd of onlookers stand in the middle of the road watching on (also a bad idea). It looks initially like the driver has managed to hold things together as they exit the donut, but the tyres remain lit, and the car suddenly snaps to the right, spearing straight off the road, over the pavement and into the car dealership.

A subsequent clip shows the aftermath, with the Senna’s front end largely destroyed and the driver’s airbag visibly deployed. It also looks to have caused some major damage to the building, having punched a hole in the wall and seemingly taken out a window. An innocent Honda Accord also looks like it picked up some minor damage.

McLaren Senna performs a donut moments before crashing

The identity of the driver has now been confirmed as YouTuber Edmond Barseghian, AKA Mondi, who fessed up to being the driver in a post on his now-private Instagram page, according to Carscoops. Barseghian had posted a video just five days prior to the crash in which he collected the Senna from a dealership. In a separate post, he doesn’t apologise but does express some regret that the crash happened on a public road. The Senna was apparently a write-off, but he plans to have it repaired nonetheless. 
It seems Barseghian himself was unharmed, but the video serves as a good reminder: don’t try this sort of thing on a public road, especially in a city where there’s plenty to hit, and plenty of people to film your misfortune. It’s likely Barseghian is suffering a bruised ego, and we don’t yet know what the police might have to say on the matter, but had he lost control in a different way, it could have been a whole lot worse.