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"The annual Mille Miglia vintage-car rally concluded this weekend in Italy, and as always, it was a colorful spectacle of important, rare, and classic automobiles being driven as they were intended instead of sitting on display like garage queens. Like any motorsports event, the Mille Miglia is not without risk\u2014participants share public roads with regular traffic. Other drivers? They&amp;#039;re wild cards, and accidents happen, as did to the No. 419 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing driven by Konstantin Sixt, heir to the Sixt rental-car fortune.    BMW 1er colllided with #Merc #300SL driven by the heirs to Sixt car rental on Mille Miglia. No one seriously hurt. pic.twitter.com/b5eGew7WVw \u2014 Greg Kable (@GregKable) May 18, 2014   Bild reports that Sixt&amp;#039;s SL was struck head-on by a BMW 1 Series driven by a French volleyball coach. Here&amp;#039;s the good news: Reports indicate none of the injuries sustained by those involved were serious, and all are recovering. The bad news? The Gullwing, valued at around $1.1 million (\u20AC800,000), really got hammered, as you can see in this video taken of the aftermath. If you&amp;#039;re an enthusiast, this one&amp;#039;s tough to look at:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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