After impact, witnesses saw celebrity couple fleeing the scene.
Not everyone likes to let their better halves drive their vehicles, and in some cases, it is better off that way. One such case is 36-year-old actor-producer Terrence Jenkins, a former host of E! News, who has seemingly lost his McLaren 570S at the hands of his girlfriend, model Jasmine Sanders (a.k.a. “Golden Barbie” on Instagram, where she has over 3 million followers). According to the Daily Mail, that black sports cat was literally wrapped around a tree in Los Angeles as witnesses watched the scene unfold, including the celebrity couple running from the mangled supercar.
The Big Crash
In the early morning hours of October 9, the black McLaren 570S was seen by witnesses slamming into a tree near Los Angeles. The car was destroyed, and before hitting the tree, it damaged a utility pole and some sort of above-ground water source. But witnesses saw the driver and passenger exit the car.
According to witnesses, 27-year-old Sanders was the one behind the wheel and Jenkins was in the passenger seat at the time of the impact. They both exited the vehicle and a short time later, they were picked up by another vehicle: a tow truck. The tow truck driver was reportedly told that the vehicle was owned by a celebrity and that police were searching the area for a man in a red sweatshirt along with a woman in a blue jumpsuit. But sources insist that the McLaren is registered to Jenkins.
As you can see in the images here, the fact that the two were able to get out of the car and walk away shows that the McLaren 570S can stand up to one hell of a front-end impact.
Evidently, shortly after the time of the crash, Saunders posted a video of herself on Instagram where she is stretching her neck and looking kind of rough. She arguably looks like someone who just drove a McLaren into a tree hard enough to cut the front of the car in half.
So far, there have been no arrests and no official comment from Jenkins or Saunders.
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