Don't drive distracted.

[cjolley]

Especially if you are driving a $1,000,000 sports car.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/13/ap/strange/main5634544.shtml

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 a salt marsh.

It just had to be a salt marsh, didn't it

[Evildead666]

He drove a Veyron into the water......INSURANCE FRAUD....LOL.

He found out how not worth the cash it is....

[ALBPM]

Here's the video of the incident

http://jalopnik.com/5404403/exclusiv...?********=true

just scroll down a bit.

[degrub]

check out the two frame capture of the Pelican biting it under the car.

[VJ]

Still looks odd to me; hard to see on video...

I once had to hit the brakes *very* hard on the highway driving 120 kph to avoid hitting a heron. It first passed in front of me, then swerved back towards me, right at eyelevel. Luckiliy there was no traffic behind me. But there was no thought in my mind to pull the steering weel, just to hit the brakes and brace for impact: better to just minimize impact than to loose control of the car trying to avoid it. It luckily corrected its flightpath and avoided me (I noticed it flying away in my mirrors, so it also didn't got in problems from the airflow )

They guy in the Veyron mustn't have been driving *that* fast (the filming car passed him), so he must have reacted very poorly to the bird to make him loose control of a sports car - they stick to the road. And wouldn't you take up some specialized driving courses (skid training, ...) when having so much money and driving a car like that? Just my 2c...

[Elie]

looks like a scam to me! The whole thing was filmed, and all of a sudden when there was a clear path to the water, he took it. Hmmmm

[Evildead666]

He said he was scared by the Heron, and dropped his phone.

To me, he was leaning to pick up his phone, probably an iPhone, and leaning down to the right with one hand on the steering wheel will pull it right.
He probably looked up just after dropping onto the grass, by when its too late for brakes....

[VJ]

(pelikan for him... )

Still sounds fishy (no pun intended?)...

[degrub]

i know that road - having fished there many times - there is usually a 4-6 inch drop off at the edge of the pavement.