A driver who swerved a million-dollar supercar into a Texas swamp will have to convince a jury that he didn't purposely end up in the water in order to claim on an insurance policy which would have doubled his money.
Andy House, a car dealer from Lufkin, Texas, drove the French-built Bugatti Veyron - one of only 300 ever made - into a lagoon in LaMarque in November 2009.
The video of the incident was captured by car enthusiasts driving alongside him and has been watched 2.6 million times on YouTube
Gilbert Harrison of MCH Truck and Auto, who was called out to tow the vehicle at the time, said Mr House 'took the loss in his stride'.
Following the incident, the insurance company Philadelphia Indemnity sued Mr House for fraud.
The company claimed that the car dealer borrowed $1 million from a friend to buy the car and then bought insurance on it as a collector's vehicle, which valued it at more than $2 million.
The insurance firm then alleged that Mr House drove it into the saltwater lagoon to collect the huge payout.
The driver said that he swerved off the road to avoid hitting a pelican, but the insurance company have argued that there was no pelican to be seen in the video.
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