Yesterday morning while driving to work I heard a tale about a gentleman who drove a Bugatti into a salt marsh between Galveston and Houston on Thursday. The reason for the accident? The guy was distracted while driving and claims that a pelican startled him and caused him to swerve. The problem is that someone was filming the car and there’s no pelican to found in the video.
The driver, a Jeff House from Lufkin, TX, is a Car collector and had just purchased the 2006 Bugatti Veyron for $1.25 million. It had 500 odometer miles on it. He was trying to retrieve a cellphone from the floor board when a tire went off the road and he ended up in the salt marsh near La Marque.
I don’t know about you, but if I was driving a car worth a cool million and that could go 253 MPH and had 1,001 HP under the hood, the next to last thing I would do while driving it, is anything other than concentrate on my driving. And the VERY last thing I would do is distract myself with a cell phone.
Tags: Auto, Bugatti, Car, Cell, Crash, Distraction, Dollars, Galveston, Million, Phone
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I saw that… what a waste!
He paid the second to ultimate price – losing all this money over a cell phone. The first would have been his life, thankfully he didnt lose that. KARMA baby!