13 November 2009 - 11:00
Video: Water Bug’
It is Friday the 13th. It is damp (well, it is if you’re in the UK). It’s still over a month until you can look forward to getting embarrassingly drunk at the office Christmas party.
But cheer up: at least your day is going better than this gent’s day.
This gent drives a Bugatti Veyron. Or drove a Bugatti Veyron, rather. Along Interstate 45 in Texas, to be precise, when he was distracted by a low-flying pelican (excuses, excuses), which caused him to veer off the road… and into a lagoon.
A salt-water lagoon. Lovely corrosive water, sloshing through all the expensive mechanical bits of your million-quid, 1000bhp hypercar. Gutted.
The anonymous driver – well, wouldn’t you want to stay anonymous if you’d just binned your Veyron into a lake? – escaped unhurt, which is more than we can say for the poor Bugatti…
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Unhurt? What about emotionally scarred?
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ooooh, salt water
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That really sucks for him, I used to live off of 45 and while both sides of the road have water, it is a good sixty or seventy feet. He must have been flying.
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Wow, only a low flying pelican could have caused an accident such as this. Pah! He should consider taking some really expensive high speed control lessons... Oh wait, he cant, he's broke :(
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haha i seen the video and it is funny. poor car, dont really care about the driver, its his faultt, stupid excuses are made so u dont pay some of the insurance so stupid person
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My husband and I are former Houstonians who still keep up with their local news. He called me first thing this morning to tell me about the article, and I thought I'd see if I could post it somewhere on this Top Gear site. I got a good laugh when I found it was already here! Good job, gentlemen!
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My friends say he did this because he couldn't sell it and decided to get some money from the insurance company.
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This hurts. If he wanted to trick the insurance company, I hope they don't pay. At all. Ok, maybe for a contract killer. And if it really was an accident, maybe he should drive a Hilux instead?
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he left the handbrake on, as if he had deliberately parked it there.
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Bug Kills Pelican!haha
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haha makes me smile. hideous car anyway, Ascari A10 for me
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Utter plank why couldn't he have a rover? at least when he did that we could've laughed. it makes me cry!
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"Who's the Uboat commander?" Truly sad way to end the day in your supercar.
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Gee why would you allow Americans with these sort of cars! :D
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What a plonker!!
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omg i feel sorry not with the driver because that was a really fake excuse but i feel bad about the guys who took months to build the car and too the car because that is a very cool car tip for the driver take again the driving lessons and lessons for high speed cars
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ps: that car is now trash because of the salt water
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What a dosey F***** I would be so angery with myself for a long time and would say "Am such a dopey F***** and I wasted £1,000,000"
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Daft apoth. It's our work Christmas party tonight (well, 1 of 2 parties).
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Note, the spoiler is raised, so he was traveling at speed, and not on air brake mode, so he never touched the brakes.
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Good gravy. Who on earth would drive into a lake without realising?
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As an American... I hope he bought cell phone insurance and he has his backup Prius at home. :)'
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Well, he won't be doing THAT again in a hurry.
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As it is an American we can all assume that a corner is somewhere nearby as we all know American are all useless plebs when it comes to corners!!
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you..how..what..no..NOOO *sobs*
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