A £250,000 Lamborghini Aventador has been written off after it was split in half in an accident in Brooklyn, New York.

CCTV footage released on YouTube shows the moment the super car was hit from in front and then forced off the road.

The one-minute eight-second clip seems to show a Mazda car turn into the Lamborghini, which was driving in the opposite direction.

The driver did not have any time to avoid the oncoming vehicle, and was knocked off course and then crashed into a wall.

The Lamborghini Aventador split in half after the crash. The collision caused the expensive Aventador to split in half, with the two different parts reportedly ending up 30ft apart.

The incident, in which no one was seriously injured, left many YouTube users surprised at the way the car broke in half.