IIRC, when the accident first happened, eyewitness accounts mentioned seeing movement inside while the car was burning, I don't personally know for sure, but I'd hate to think they were burned alive!
Am I missing something that indicates how they determined he wasn't killed on impact? I mean looking at the wreckage, it's hard to imagine surviving that.
In the article his daughter's lawyer claimed he breathed soot into his trachea. I have not idea if that's true, and if it is, whether it's meaningful. Like, could soot have gotten into his trachea after he died anyway?
They aren't magic. They hit a stationary object at 70+ mph in a 3,000lb tin can.
amazing that people actually think Porche has any blame in this. just fucking amazing.
This is 100% the fault of the driver. that's it.
though i suspect they will settle.
On November 30, 2013, at approximately 3:30 p.m. PST, Walker and Roger Rodas, 38, left an event for Walker's charity Reach Out Worldwide for victims of Typhoon Haiyan[46] in Rodas's red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. The car crashed into a concrete lamppost and two trees on Hercules Street, in a 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) speed zone near Kelly Johnson Parkway in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, after which the vehicle burst into flames.
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In March 2014, further investigation revealed that the speed of the car was the main reason for the crash. The car was said to be traveling between 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) and 93 miles per hour (150 km/h), and had nine-year-old tires that were seldom driven on.[59]
They were driving on 9-year-old tires (owner negligence)
this.
i guess they timed it so VW/porsche's lawyers were preoccupied with doing damage control on something else
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Walker#Death
Root cause analysis:
1. They crashed doing 80 to 93 MPH in a 45 MPH zone (driver negligence)
2. They were driving on 9-year-old tires (owner negligence)
Trying to guess at the motivation for suing Porsche...did she not get an estate inheritance or insurance payout? I mean, if you're going to sue someone, why not sue Tesla for selling a street-legal car that goes 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds? Or motorcycles that can get 160 MPH+?
IF i remember right she did get a inhertance and some of the other actors gave her their paychecks. Also people went online and started a gofund me for her or something.
All in all she shouldn't NEED the money.
General consensus says that the car is insanely difficult to drive, the driver was very experienced, they were not racing.
Porche will settle, and she'll get the money she wants.
She has a case.. the carrera GT is a dangerous car...
We need Car control badly!
She is just another in a long line of people that see a loved ones death as a winning lottery ticket.
Am I missing something that indicates how they determined he wasn't killed on impact? I mean looking at the wreckage, it's hard to imagine surviving that.
No, every consensus says that nobody crashes exotic cars unless traveling too fast for their skill level. The driver might have been experienced, but he was not skilled. A skilled driver does not plow a car into a pole on a clear dry road with no traffic or mechanical failure as a contributing factor. The driver was an idiot with more ego than skill. Every consensus says that you don't floor the throttle in a car without knowing how it will react. Every consensus says that when learning a new car you approach the limits slowly and intelligently so that you learn where they are without exceeding them. Every consensus says that you don't drive 90mph+ on a city street where the speed limit is 35mph. Every consensus says that no car is idiot proof and any car can be fatally crashed when an idiot is at the wheel.
http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/28/paul-walker-daughter-meadow-sues-porsche-burned-alive-defect/According to the lawsuit -- obtained by TMZ -- lawyers for 16-year-old Meadow Walker claim when the Porsche Carrera GT crashed and broke apart, Paul's seat belt "snapped Walker's torso back with thousands of pounds of force, thereby breaking his ribs and pelvis," and trapping him in the passenger seat.
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Law enforcement said the cause of the crash was speeding -- 80 to 93 MPH -- at the hands of driver Roger Rodas. But the lawsuit says Rodas was only going between 63 and 71 MPH when it careened out of control. And the suit alleges the car would never have careened if it had a proper stabilization system.
I agree to this.
When handled wrong, even driving an original fiat500 can kill you.
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I have no problem with blaming the driver for speeding. There's no coming back from the fact that he was going twice the speed limit. People make mistakes. It's a bit easier to wrap a Porsche around a pole compared to most other cars. Not saying Porsche is to blame at all though.
The problem with this whole "let's compare this Porsche to a civic" premise is the fact that it's sensationalization. It's also discrediting the fact that the car is a monster to drive.
That's either here nor there though. Once again, I think this entire case can be decided by the tires.