Veyron Down! Driven into Salt Marsh...

[owr084]

What a putz. He drove his Veyron off the road into a salt marsh...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti

 

[Street Toys]

Yeah, Its junk!! I should save him the headaches and offer him $500.00 for it I'll take my losses cleaning it up, I guess someone has to do it.

 

[fitzski]

Distracted by a bird and dropped his cell phone?

...the Veyron features speech-controlled, hands-free mobile phone operation with integrated Bluetooth technology

Just another idiot with "more dollars than sense".

 

[dieseldorf]

offer.

 

[velociT]

He did it for the ins. money.

It already came out that he lives in a $147k house and has only operated his small exotic car repair business for 4 years.

The fact that it just "happened" to get on video confirms to me that this is 100% insurance fraud. No pelican was caught on the video.

More than likely the only way he could afford to keep the $2M car was to give himself the work of restoring the water damages and cutting the costs.

 

[K5ING]

Here's the video of him actually crashing into the lake. Enjoy!

 

[aja8888]

Here's the video of him actually crashing into the lake! Enjoy!

If he did it on purpose, he is a nut case. It's too easy to kill yourself doing that.

 

[K5ING]

To be fair to the driver, if you do a stop motion of him right before he steers into the lake, you can see something that may be a large bird hitting the front of the car.

 

[owr084]

That video shoots his alibi of being surprised by a pelican all to hell. No sign of the alleged bird at all in the video.

K5ing - at what time mark in the video did you see something that resembles a bird? I saw nothing.

 

[aja8888]

To be fair to the driver, if you do a stop motion of him right before he steers into the lake, you can see something that may be a large bird hitting the front of the car.

I looked at it full screen mode with several motion stops and did not see any big bird hit the car. My old eyes may not be as sharp as can be though.

 

[K5ING]

About :14 to :15 seconds in it looks like something at the side of the road, but it could be anything.

Read the comments on Jalopnik plus an update from the driver himself for more details.

 

[VeeDubTDI]

I don't see any rogue pelicans.

 

[aja8888]

If you read the comments, it looks more and more like a scam set up. If not, the guy is a lucky dude he didn't kill himself.

 

[VeeDubTDI]

Can we say "insurance fraud?"

 

[velociT]

Can we say "insurance fraud?"

Yep.

I think if I drove my exotic into a body of water, I would attempt to go back in the 15 mins it was floating and idling to try to shut it off.

 

[penclnck]

Maybe the dude will get a phone call from Stefan Eriksson. Add Eddie Griffin and you've got a club.

 

[GoFaster]

I betcha the car can't be sold for what the insurance company has it valued for. But with this video made so public ... good luck with that insurance claim.

 

[PDJetta]

Here's the video of him actually crashing into the lake. Enjoy!

Well, I certainly did not see a bird in the video. I bet the video was discovered in the trunk too!

--Nate

 

[RabbitGTI]

Two possibilities.
1) idiot crashed car accidently because he's stupid = bankrupt
2) idiot crashed car on purpose for insurance fraud = bankrupt and prison.

 

[Turbine Suburban]

That video reminded me of another idiot.

Gets real interesting about 5 minutes in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPvs_sJMXM

 

[PDJetta]

This happened on Friday the 13th!

--Nate