The owner of a local tow-truck company, Moti Matmon, told the UK's Daily Telegraph that the US Consulate in Jerusalem had asked him to recover the vehicle.
Equally rudimentary was the Leyland Motors truck supplied for the pope's 1982 visit to the UK. Such was the determination of the British authorities not to lose a Pope on their watch this armored beast was the heaviest Popemobile ever at 24 tons.
De Villota, one of two women contracted to an F1 team this year, collided with a stationary support truck after completing her first lap at her first test outing for the UK-based Russian marque.