LA MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.

The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived.

Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured.

A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.

 

haha good luck getting the insurance to cover that one lol.

 

damn!!

 

this is why i dont mess with my phone when Im driving. I can barely hear to talk on it anyway because of my exhaust so most of the time I just leave it in my pocket or the passenger seat

 

^ Same here. Most things can wait.

 

wow check this out someone got it on video:
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Video-o...hing_719255.htm

 

wow i didnt even see the bird that apparently flew in front of him. He probably just threw that part in there but in reality he was just messing with his phone.

 

Veyron > phone. I would never text and drive with that sort of car.

I like how the guy in the video was pretty sure it's a lambo. lol

 

yea. lol.
well in any case...the man is a total dumb ass.
it only shows money doesn't add to intelligence.
he shoulda just tricked out a Toyota Corolla...at least then it wouldn't be on the news.