Thanks for the footage. I didn't see any f***ing birds, man. I hope that guy goes down for insurance fraud...hard.

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Driving and texting, perhaps?

Either way, that guy's a total idiot...

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Great post. Looks like this will become quite a scandal.

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I never tought anything would top Dietrich and the wrecked Enzo.

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Sorry guys, but at 00:15 he hits something small and white right when he veers off the road. No, not a Pelican, but play it a few times and you see it. Nonetheless, all that does is knock him down from King Moron to Lord Moron du Bugatti.

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@Name: I see nothing... And I keep trying because I really want to believe that something external, however small, caused this.

Although personally, it would have taken an albatross crashing through the windshield and hitting me in the face to let me crash that particular car into a lake.

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I'm not seeing anything either, even on the high-quality video.

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@xpolarx
I know nothing about insurance and what kind of money the person would get for wrecking a car that expensive, but wouldn't it be cheaper to sell the car and get like 1.5mil (whatever a Veyron goes for) than to try to get insurance fraud. I wanna know if he will get more money if he gets insured than just selling it?

(not a d-dag comment.. Just a question, please answer)

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@ Jessica
I obviously don't know the status of his claim, but what was reported yesterday was that he left the engine running until it died. Any intelligent human being knows that you should turn off the engine immediately after a wreck...no matter what. See, water damage alone wouldn't total a car like that...water damage plus a hydrolocked engine on the other hand, probably would. In this market, the resale on even a Veyron has been impacted to the point that the insurance would probably pay out more than the resale. It's basically the same as someone torching his house for the insurance.
Of course, this guy also has a supercar restoration company, so it sounds like he's working it from both angles: total the car, buy it from the insurance company, rebuild it in house and make a killing. There are just too many sketchy pieces to this puzzle for it to be an 'accident.'

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Name: the white rock (or whatever it is) is on the shoulder, no way he should hit it. Plus, even if it were on the road a little he's on a flat straight road, he shoulda saw that coming a mile away.

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Texas car wash...with a view.

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"Looks like this will become quite a scandal."

When is any exotic car crash NOT a scandal?

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@xpolarx:
I agree that he is probably trying to setup some form of insurance payment.
But I disagree that the first reaction would have been to shut off the engine. That car has a push-button start / stop and in a panic situation (even if it was intentional), the adrenaline of being in water in a car may cause a person to not think about shutting off the engine - just about getting out.

The engine is probably a significant portion of the vehicle's value.

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I'm just taking a guess that you're into Superfastminis, check out their AWD version.

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Yes - I would expect the driver to be balloon boy's dad.

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absolutely its insurance fraud.


1) Drive your own car into a lake, take it to your own company to repair.
2) send a bill larger than the damage to the insurance company.
3) Profit.
4) Get sexed in the butt in prison.

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Shall we call this "Bugatti boy"

Just to get a break from the [whatever]-gate snowclone...

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