Months after the death of “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker, latest investigative reports indicate the actor died as a result of the speed at which the car was driving.
“Investigators determined the cause of the fatal solo-vehicle collision was unsafe speed for the roadway conditions,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Commander Mike Parker said Tuesday.
The high-performance 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was going “between 80 and 93 mph at the time the car impacted a power pole and several trees,” the final report said whereas the posted speed limit on the Santa Clarita, California, office park road was 45 mph.
Paul Walker and friend Roger Rodas, had no drugs or alcohol in their blood. Both men were wearing seat belts. The airbags deployed as they should have when the car clipped a light pole and several trees, investigators said.
Nothing mechanical went wrong to cause their Porsche to leave the wide road. Investigators found “no pre-existing conditions that would have caused this collision,” the report said. Experts from Porsche and Michelin were consulted.
The car did have “an aftermarket exhaust system” that helped it go faster, the report said. The tires on the car, which was mostly displayed in a showroom and rarely driven, were more than nine years old.
