A LUFKIN, TEXAS, MAN WAS VISITING GALVESTON Wednesday and driving back home around 3:30 pm with one hand on the steering wheel and his other hand holding his cellphone when he suddenly piloted his $2 million Bugatti Veyron off the road and into a salt-water lagoon that is about 2 ft. deep.

The unidentified man told police that “a low-flying pelican” distracted him, causing him to jerk the steering wheel and drop his cell phone, which led him to run the car off the road into a muddy patch of ground preventing him from correcting his path.  The car then ended up in the lagoon.

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Witnesses said that the car’s 16-cylinder engine, equipped with four turbo-chargers, “gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.”  The highly-tuned Veyron is the world’s fastest production automobile, capable of going 250 mph.  The car is also one of the rarest production cars, selling new for more than $2 million.  There were only 200 Bugatti Veyrons made, and of them only about 15 are in the United States.

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