F1 without crashes would be like Strictly without John Seargant… pointless, in other words.
We’ve compiled five of the most spectacular prangs of 2008, which you can enjoy - if that’s the right word - after the jump, as well as voting for which one you think is the most spectacular crash of the season…
Safety message: Just because the victim gets up and walks away, it doesn’t mean that it’s cool to ride your moped around town wearing nothing more than a t-shirt and shorts. He should have been wearing sunglesses too.
Driver runs red light at high speed, car coming the other way ploughs into said law-breaker, pedestrian minds his own business - who came off worst? Correct - the guy not sat in a big metal box equipped with air-bags.
For the record, the pedestrian not only survived, he wasn’t even seriously injured.
St. Louis, U.S: One fire engine ran a red light just as the other was steaming through a green light - the two crews were on their way to separate incidents. What are the chances of that?