Cellphone man drives Bugatti into lake

Release Date 13 Nov, 2009 in Times LIVE

 
   

2006 Bugatti Veyron crashes on video, posted to Facebook

Christian Science Monitor - Andrew Heining - 13 Nov, 2009
Facebook video of a 2006 Bugatti Veyron crash shows the car making a wall of water as it hits a Texas lagoon. No one was injured in the crash. ...

Police ID driver whose Bugatti plunged into lake

Houston Chronicle - 13 Nov, 2009
AP LUFKIN â€" Police have revealed the identity of the owner and driver of a million-dollar French sports car that he accidentally veered into a salt marsh. ...

Cellphone man drives Bugatti into lake

Times LIVE - 13 Nov, 2009
Yahoo reported on its website that a Texan man drove his $1.25-million Bugatti Veyron into a lake while talking on his cellphone. ...

Another Bugatti Veyron Bites The Dust

Wired News - Dave Eyvazzadeh - 13 Nov, 2009
The Bugatti Veyron is the unequivocal king of function, flare and raw power on today's tarmac. It has received much fan-fare for being ...

Oops: Bugatti Veyron driven into lagoon in freak accident

USA Today - 13 Nov, 2009
Bad news for owners of the Bugatti Veyron, one of the world's most expensive and fastest cars. They don't float. A Lufkin, Texas, man found out the hard way ...

Car owner takes sports car's plunge into lake in stride

Houston Chronicle - Peggy O'Hare - 13 Nov, 2009
By PEGGY O'HARE Wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison prepares to retrieve a million-dollar Bugatti Veyron from the water Wednesday in La Marque. ...

Texas man drives Bugatti into pond; blames bird

The Associated Press - 13 Nov, 2009
LA MARQUE, Texas â€" Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar sports car into ...

Man distracted by bird drives Bugatti into marsh

The Associated Press - 13 Nov, 2009
LA MARQUE, Texas â€" 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 ...

Video: Bugatti Veyron for sale, slightly damp

Christian Science Monitor - Andrew Heining - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎
There are bad days, and then there are days you crash your $2 million Bugatti Veyron into a saltwater lagoon. ...

$1.6 million Bugatti Crashes into Lagoon

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Robert Frank - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎
Here is an interesting insurance question: say you bought a Bugatti Veyron. And you are driving on the interstate near Galveston, Texas. ...

Man distracted by pelican drives Bugatti into lake

The Associated Press - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎
LA MARQUE, Texas â€" A bird was blamed for distracting the driver of a luxury sports car who then drove his Bugatti Veyron into the drink. ...

Underwater, Literally, With a $2 Million Bugatti

New York Times - Richard S. Chang - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎
Eddie Griffin might finally be off the hook for the most ridiculous crash in a priceless supercar. On Wednesday, a man drove a Bugatti ...

Video of Bugatti crash surfaces

Galveston County Daily News - Chris Paschenko, Jessica Cooley - 13 Nov, 2009
LA MARQUE â€" Police on Friday identified a Lufkin man who accidentally drove a $2 million Bugatti Veyron, a rare automobile that is ...

The Story Of The Pelican, Rare Bugatti & Lagoon

Today's THV - 13 Nov, 2009
A Texas man as quite a story to tell to his insurance company about his million dollar Bugatti. The sports car ended up in a saltwater lagoon near Galveston ...

UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News

United Press International - 13 Nov, 2009
LAMARQUE, Texas, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A man distracted by a flying pelican drove his Bugatti Veyron, possibly the world's rarest sports car, into a saltwater ...

Bugatti Veyron in Pond Makes News

Right Juris - 13 Nov, 2009
By Beth You know it's Friday the 13th when you drive your $1 million Bugatti Veyron into a pond. That's cause enough for a serious case of triskaidekaphobia ...

Soggy Bugatti driver said he has showed exotic cars to children, others

Lufkin Daily News - Jessica Cooley - 13 Nov, 2009
The Lufkin man who accidentally drove his million-dollar car into a lagoon on Wednesday spoke out about the wreck on an online message ...

Owner of the Soggy 2006 Bugatti Veyron Identified

MotorCrave.com - Chris Weiss - 13 Nov, 2009
In case you missed it, on Wednesday afternoon, some fool drove his beautiful 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB off a La Marque, Texas road and into a salty marsh. ...

$2 Million Bugatti Veyron Driven Into Lake!

The Business Insider - 13 Nov, 2009
According to the AP, a single-car accident in La Marque, Texas ended with one of the rarest cars in the world wading in a salt marsh. ...

Man takes his 2006 Bugatti Veyron for a swim

Daily Contributor - 13 Nov, 2009
Wondering why the 2006 Bugatti Veyronâ€"one of the most expensive and fastest production cars in the worldâ€" is surging in Google Trends? ...

Bugatti ends up is the water. Guilty? A pelican…

Mibz (blog) - Andy Panait - 13 Nov, 2009
Where can you find a million dollar sports-car these days? In lakes, yes in water these days! Fishing out a Bugatti Veyron, the French supercar present in ...

Lagoon-soaked Bugatti owner identified

Daily News - Galveston County - Jessica Cooley - 13 Nov, 2009
LUFKIN â€" La Marque police released the name of the Lufkin man who drove a million-dollar car into a saltwater lagoon, blaming a low-flying ...

Bugatti Veyron Involved in One of Most Amusing Crashes of All Time

U.S. News Rankings & Reviews - 13 Nov, 2009
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...a pelican? One can only guess that these thoughts went through the mind of a driver of a rare 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB as he ...

Texas man takes Bugatti Veyron for a swim

AutoWeek - Jake Lingeman - 13 Nov, 2009
A Bugatti Veyron driver in Texas said a low-flying pelican caused him swerve off the road and into a lagoon. What do you get when you mix ...

La Marque Police release name of Lufkin man who wrecked car

KTRE - 13 Nov, 2009
LA MARQUE, TX (KTRE) - La Marque Police have released the name of the driver who drove his car into a lagoon in Galveston County. ...

Pelican 1, Bugatti 0

Autoblog UK (blog) - 13 Nov, 2009
The last thing you would want to do if you had one of the 200 existing Bugatti Veyrons would be to suffer a tiny scratch, let alone drown it altogether in ...

Video: Water Bug'

Top Gear - 13 Nov, 2009
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 ...

$2M car's dead in the water

New York Post - David K. Li - 13 Nov, 2009
Not even $2 million of high-speed European luxury could withstand two feet of Texas saltwater. The driver of this Bugatti Veyron took a wrong ...

Man drives $2.5m supercar into lake

Ninemsn - 13 Nov, 2009
By ninemsn staff A US man has millions of reasons to regret talking on his mobile phone while driving after submerging his ultra-rare supercar in a ...

Video: So how bad can mud and salt water be for a $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron?

Examiner.com - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎
The unnamed owner went to check out some high end property in Galveston, Texas when he was distracted by low flying pelican, which made him drop his cell ...

 

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