Porsche sued over crash that killed Paul Walker

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The widow of the man who was driving a Porsche sports car that crashed and killed "Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker sued the automaker on Monday, claiming design flaws caused both men to die in a fiery crash in November.

The wrongful death lawsuit by Kristine M. Rodas says her husband was driving at 55 mph (88.5 kph) ? not at unsafe speeds as law enforcement investigators determined ? before it crashed last year. Roger W. Rodas was driving a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT capable of speeds more than 200 mph (320 kph), but his wife's lawsuit says the vehicle lacked a proper crash cage and safety features in the gas tank that would have saved both men's lives.

The lawsuit also contends that a failure in the car's suspension system forced it to careen out of control and strike three trees while driving down a street in Santa Clarita, California.

"The Carrera GT was unsafe for its intended use by reason of defects in its manufacture, design, testing, component and constituents, so that it would not safely serve its purpose," the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from Porsche Cars North America, which did not immediately return email messages seeking comment.

Kristine Rodas' attorney, Mark Geragos, said he hired the top experts in the country to evaluate the wreckage and crash. The results, he said, were an unbiased look at the accident that refutes an official investigation that determined the sports car was speeding at up to 94 mph (151 kph) when it crashed.

The results of an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol were released in March and concluded that it was unsafe speed and not mechanical problems that caused the crash. That investigation was aided by engineers from Porsche, who evaluated the wreckage of the rare car.

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[The Evil Overlord]

SMFH

[webeagle12]

/facepalm

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Loose nut behind the wheel ....

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How can this dumb ###### claim that her husband was driving at 55mph?  She wasn't in or near the vehicle at the time!  FFS, someone backhand her!

[einsteinbqat]

:omg:  /facepalm

[Raa]

Oh here we go... :no:

[DocM]

How can this dumb #### claim that her husband was driving at 55mph? She wasn't in or near the vehicle at the time! FFS, someone backhand her!

You can work it out from the chassis and sheetmetal deformation. All it takes is a digital engineering model of the vehicle (perhaps supoenaed from the maker), accident reconstruction software and a decent sized computer cluster.