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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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.
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