The vehicle which was carrying nine cars, including Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins believed to be worth £2million in total, crashed on a village road in Burton on the Wolds, near Loughborough.
The cars were believed to be worth over £220,000 each.
It happened close to Prestwold Hall, the ancestral home of the Packe-Drury-Lowe family, where guests can enjoy hospitality packages in the grounds and on an airfield, including motor sport, clay pigeon shooting and quad bikes.
The driver suffered minor injuries when the transporter went through a field and crashed into a wall and some trees at just before midnight on Saturday.
A tree is believed to have fallen over and blocked the road.
Diesel spilled all over the road closing the Loughborough Road for more than ten hours.
One of the supercars being carried is said to have been “catapulted” into the air and landed in the branches of a tree 50ft up.
Charnwood councillor Jonathan Morgan said in a twitter message: “Loughborough Rd, Burton on the Wolds – fallen tree blocking road currently being cleared following freak midnight accident- car transporter with £2m of supercars on it, crashed and brought down tree – catapulted one of the cars 50ft up, to rest in branches…”
He told Leicestershire Live: "We came across it just before midnight.
"The lorry had come off the road and through the perimeter wall of Prestwold Hall before hitting three or four pretty large trees.
"One of the supercars had been flung off and was dangling in the branches of one of the trees that had been brought down.
"It's an odd thing to come across when you’re driving home on a Saturday night."
Morgan thought there were about eight cars left on the transporter.
He added: "When we got there the emergency services hadn't arrived yet. The driver was out of the lorry and inspecting the cars still on the lorry. I think he was a bit bruised in the crash but I understand he didn't go to hospital.
"The trees have all been cut up and taken away and the cars were also removed."
A spokeswoman for Leicestershire Police said: “We were called at 12.02am today to a report that a lorry had gone through a field and into a wall, causing significant damage to trees.
“There was quite a lot of diesel on the road, which was why the road remained closed for so long.”
On social media, Woolyback01 joked: "I heard he could keep his job if he paid for the damage… he's offered a pound a week."
AdiLodgic wrote: "I'd like to be a fly on the wall when the transport firm are filling in the insurance form."
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