Cra$h - The Full Monte

This was the moment when a woman driver caused a $1.2 million five-car pile-up as her Bentley collided with a Mercedes, Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin. Photo / Supplied

The motoring website Autogespot suggests that you "couldn't find a worse place" to crash your car than the playground of the rich, Monte Carlo.

And one driver found out to her cost yesterday after crashing her $468,000 Bentley - into a Mercedes, a Ferrari, a Porsche and an Aston Martin.

The driver turned a parade of some of the world's most expensive cars into a demolition derby outside the Monte Carlo Casino when she scraped her car against a $140,000 Mercedes S class. After scraping the Benz, the driver didn't hit the brakes in time to stop ramming a $262,000 black Ferrari F430, a Porsche 911 worth $149,000 and a $262,000 Aston Martin Rapide.

Unfortunately in Monte Carlo, where tourists number in their hundreds per square metre, the crash dummy wasn't able to flee.

The driver and her two passengers weren't even able to open their car doors after the pile-up, having been imprisoned by gawking, snapping rubberneckers.

But there is a happy ending. Despite the combined value of the cars - well in excess of $1.2 million - the cost of repairs is expected to reach "just" $76,000.