Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Porsche carrying "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker was speeding at more than 100 miles per hour when it crashed in November, killing the actor and a friend, according to the final coroner's report on the deaths.
The 15-page report released Friday by the Los Angeles County coroner's office answered several questions that had been the subject of speculation about how Walker and racing team partner Roger Rodas.
The two men apparently did not live long after the high-performance 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, which was traveling at "approximately 100+ mph," slammed into a light post and tree and burst into flames, the report said.
"For unknown reasons, the driver lost control of the vehicle, and the vehicle partially spun around, and began to travel in a southeast direction," the coroner's report said. " The vehicle then struck a sidewalk and the driver's side of the vehicle struck a tree and then a light post. The force of those collisions caused the vehicle to spin 180 degrees, and it continued to travel in an easterly direction. The passenger side of the vehicle then struck a tree and the vehicle burst into flames."
He died in a car going Fast and Furious.
i think you are the first person in the world to say this. ever.
stupid that they were going so fast. it didn't look like that street was a place that was really designed to be going close to those speeds like a major highway or something. sad they died but so incredibly stupid.
At least we can put to bed all the stupid notions that the car wasn't speeding in a reckless manner.
Don't drive 100mph on these streets if you don't want to end up dead. The deniers of the fact that the crash was 99% speed related were doing disservice to anyone who might take a lesson from reckless driving. When you die you don't get to blame BS car mechanics to save face, you die cause you were speeding like an idiot.
Paul Walker was a stud, there's no need to conflate the issue of who is was and how he died. Two separate issues that were causing a lot of folks to act very stupid.
Assuming this was in like a 35mph area which puts it into yolo territoy.
i think you are the first person in the world to say this. ever..
Gee, do ya think?
If he had lost it while actually in that curve, I would suspect he would've ended up going off the other side of the road. Even though it's oversteer rather than understeer, the back end flying out is going to result in the car going off the outside of the turn because of inertia...he'd need traction to actually complete the turn.
Which I think the driver had/did...but after going through the curve, he dropped the hammer, the back end of the car came around violently, and he went into a spin. Once that happens, there's nothing that can be done. Hold on and wait for the world to stop spinning.
If he had lost it while actually in that curve, I would suspect he would've ended up going off the other side of the road. Even though it's oversteer rather than understeer, the back end flying out is going to result in the car going off the outside of the turn because of inertia...he'd need traction to actually complete the turn.
Which I think the driver had/did...but after going through the curve, he dropped the hammer, the back end of the car came around violently, and he went into a spin. Once that happens, there's nothing that can be done. Hold on and wait for the world to stop spinning.
Thanks to the map of the scene in the LA Times article I pulled that address up in Google maps and using street view it appears the trees were NOT the main thing that did damage to the car -- the light pole looks to me to be the most substantial thing they would have hit.
Copy this hercules st,valencia ca into Google maps then goto street view to see what I mean.
The imagery appears to be from 2011 so there's not much chance the trees got a lot more substantial since then.
Brian
Porsche engineers are scheduled to visit Los Angeles this month to help detectives gather data from the Carrera GT. L.A. County Sheriff's Capt. Michael Parker said investigators will meet with the engineers to analyze the car's data-retrieval system.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-paul-walker-crash-20140103,0,2145460.story#ixzz2pP8L1wUc
exactly what I thought earlier. No PSM on those to bail him out either.
The light pole was probably a "breakaway" type and should be much safer in an impact than a tree.
There are pictures of it and it appears to have been a steel reinforced concrete pole and not likely the break-away kind...
As I said, the trees don't look all that impressive.
Brian
Thanks to the map of the scene in the LA Times article I pulled that address up in Google maps and using street view it appears the trees were NOT the main thing that did damage to the car -- the light pole looks to me to be the most substantial thing they would have hit.
Copy this hercules st,valencia ca into Google maps then go to street view to see what I mean.
The imagery appears to be from 2011 so there's not much chance the trees got a lot more substantial since then.
Brian
If he had lost it while actually in that curve, I would suspect he would've ended up going off the other side of the road. Even though it's oversteer rather than understeer, the back end flying out is going to result in the car going off the outside of the turn because of inertia...he'd need traction to actually complete the turn.
Which I think the driver had/did...but after going through the curve, he dropped the hammer, the back end of the car came around violently, and he went into a spin. Once that happens, there's nothing that can be done. Hold on and wait for the world to stop spinning.