Back in 2019, West Ham United forward Michail Antonio crashed his £210,000 Lamborghini into a stranger’s garden on Christmas Day while wearing a snowman suit
Michail Antonio once crashed his £210,000 Lamborghini into a garden wall and was left fearing the car “would blow up”.
West Ham United confirmed the Premier League star had undergone surgery on a lower limb after he was involved in a horrifying car crash on Saturday, which saw his Ferrari smashed to pieces. The 34-year-old striker had to wait for nearly an hour to be pulled from the wreckage of the car, before he was airlifted to hospital in a state of confusion.
Photos on social media emerged of Antonio’s wrecked Ferrari in Theydon Bois, Essex, with the front of the car destroyed in the collision with a tree, as the player’s ex-wife and mother of his four children, Debbie Whittle, rushed to his bedside.
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Antonio remains in hospital and now looks set to embark on a long road to recovery, with it not known whether or not the West Ham star will ever be able to play football ever again. However, it’s not the first worrying car accident the Jamaica international has been involved in.
Back in 2019, Antonio crashed his Lamborghini into a garden wall of a house in Balham, south London on Christmas Day. Shocking footage from the incident showed Antonio’s motor ploughed into the property, with the striker spotted climbing out of the car in a snowman costume while people surround the scene of the crash.
Recalling the crash back in 2023 to the On The Judy podcast, Antonio said: “This conversation is very like… (touches chest), still to this day, it’s hurt me. Basically yeah, slippery road. Obviously, in the car, it holds corners nicely in it so I’m going like 30, maybe 35, on a 30 road.
“It holds corners so I’m thinking I don’t even need to brake, I’m just gonna go around the corner, sick car. As I’m going round the corner, it skids. So I s*** myself and I slam on the brakes.
“Worst thing you can do on ice, yeah, slam on the brakes cause you just speed up. Slam on the brakes, just skid but I’ve just gone up the curb. I don’t even remember it and then I’m seeing smoke coming out the front of the car.
“The engine’s in the back so I’m thinking the car’s gonna blow up even though it’s the airbags. Having to jump out of the passenger side, the tiny car.”
It was also a shocking moment for one of the people inside the house at the time, Kia Rosina, who told The Athletic back in 2019: “Dinner was nearly ready and then I just heard this massive bang and the whole house shook.
“There are two bin sheds out there and they’re both bricks, and they went everywhere. At first, I thought it was a bus due to how loud the bang was. I looked outside and then I said, ‘Mum!’ then we ran outside to see if whoever was in the car was fine.
“As soon as I heard the bang, my heart was beating fast because obviously, I was worried. I didn’t know what was happening or if the driver had hit the house but then I looked out of the window and thankfully, it hadn’t.
“When we went out, we thought the driver was going to be hurt really badly because it didn’t look good. My mum ran out before me so by the time I got out of the house, he (had) jumped out of the car in his snowman outfit. Once we realised no-one was hurt, we were all relieved.”