I’m 4000km away and can probably prove they were going faster than 45…I think someone forgot to carry the 1.
Its believable considering the car does 0-25 in 10 seconds
haha +1
for that car to be wrapped around that tree in that fashion it was definitely going faster than 45mph on contact, which means the car was traveling much much faster than 45 before losing control.
Looks to me they were street racing with that blue M3
Yeah the GT’s are twitchy…
I remember watching a documentary on them when they first came out and Jay Leno was taking one around the oval and spun doing 200mph+. They are amazing handling car… until they aren’t… then they bite you in the ass, hard! immediately.
Two things…
-the rear engine compartment is designed to separate from the cockpit in a bad crash. That’s what the pictures looks so gnarly. The back end was on its own and burned, leaving the front end intact but unfortunately it still cause a fatal burst of flames in the cockpit.
-there are reports of a power steering failure. Most cite the source of that as AE performance. I don’t think I believe that because if you lose power steering, you’re fine as long as you’re moving.
see the explosion? It was pretty massive. Movie effects massive. Cars don’t usually do that.
HOAX!
Just kidding, but it was seriously not normal.
I thought the same thing, and I’ve always told people that cars don’t blow up like that unless it’s in Hollywood. Seems I wasn’t far off
story broke here first!
I’m an ace wheel of fortune player. I need to get on the show. Anyone know if they take Canadians?
haha. I’m sure they don’t discriminate based on national origin. You should try out!
haha, thats great
If it takes 10s to get to 25, how long does it take to get to its 200+ mph top speed?
The last thing I want to do here is promote anything on Audizoo, but this thread is a pretty compelling read on Paul Walker.
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/570707-RIP-Paul-Walker
Turns out one of the AZ mods (OverSpun) was pretty close friends with Paul and the other guy who died.
That’s pretty cool. I always butted heads with Overspun for one reason or another, cool that he knew him though.
New info on the crash.
-Both tested negative for drugs and alcohol
-Info obtained from the car(assuming the ECU?) indicates they were going 100+. Was it 105 or 155? They won’t tell us yet, but surely it will get out eventually
-Both were found in a pugilistic stance. News outlets keep saying that they were in the position because they were defending themselves from the crash. However, the heat from the flames can cause the muscles to tense up and force the body into the same position. They both died before the flames.
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/03/showbiz/paul-walker-report/
Fast 7 is still a go, but delayed til 2015. Looks like they shot enough footage to “retire” Walker’s character. Still hard to believe.
http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/01/03/fast-furious-7-will-retire-paul-walkers-character
Pulled this from another forum
[quote]An M.D. explained what happened.
"Some of the news agencies (such as CNN) have assumed that the “pugilistic stance” description of both occupant’s arm positions must mean that they were “bracing for an impact.”
In actuality, pugilistic posturing of the arms is a very common finding in human remains that have been subjected to intense heat during a fire.
Also, the coroner’s impression in his final report on the cause of death of Paul Walker is no different than in the initial report…the cause of death was due to “the combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries.”
Make no mistake people, Paul Walker (sadly and tragically) was burning before he died.
If people will read the entire coroner’s report, it demonstrates…that although Paul Walker had some bone fractures…he did not have any injury to his brain and no skull fractures or signs of any head trauma. He didn’t even have any lacerations to his scalp.
He did not have any blunt force chest trauma.
Although he had some rib fractures, they were all lateral, none of which even penetrated the pleural cavities (the lining and space which surrounds the lungs) as evidenced by the coroner’s report stating the pleural cavities contained no fluid.
He had no damage or tears to any area of his heart, he had no pericardial effusion, he had no injury or tears to either his thoracic or abdominal aorta.
The solid organs within the abdominal cavity were normal and unremarkable, and there was no fluid collection in the abdominal cavity.
So essentially, the only traumatic injuries he received were some bone fractures…none of which would have been fatal, in and of themselves.
The generic blanket statement by the coroner in his impression of the cause of death (“combined effects of traumatic and thermal injury”) is a more humane way of describing this type of death (mainly for the sake of family members), yet without putting anything blatantly inaccurate in the report. It serves no purpose to tell family members that their loved one’s demise was the result of being burned to death.
However, within the body of the report it is quite clear that his death resulted from severe thermal trauma (ie: he burned to death in the very intense fire that ensued shortly after the crash), because none of his blunt force trauma injuries were life threatening, in and of themselves, as I stated before.
The diffuse hemorrhaging within both lungs (in the absence of any lung lacerations) as described in the coroner’s report is another sign used by a coroner when examining victims of a fire to differentiate between death due to thermal trauma (burning to death) and death due to smoke inhalation.
The coroner’s report also states that a carbon monoxide test was done of Walker’s blood and it showed a “carboxyhemoglobin saturation” of 14%.
That means, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he was breathing for a while as the flames engulfed him. However, that 14% saturation would not be enough to cause death, it was the severe thermal trauma from the intense fire that killed him.
Although it would be very painful and terrifying, being within such an intense fire would actually bring about death relatively quickly.
The bone fractures would have made it extremely difficult for him to attempt to extricate himself from the wreckage.
He also had a fracture of the T6 vertebra. That is in the upper back at about the level of his chest. The report states he also had a contusion of his spinal cord in that area.
That spinal cord contusion would most likely have resulted in at least some neurological deficit. In other words, he may have had some numbness in his legs along with some difficulty moving his legs.
Combine that with the fractures in his pelvis and the fractures in his arms, and it’s pretty obvious that it would have been impossible for him to extricate himself from the wreckage…especially in the short amount of time between the wreck and the flames engulfing the car.
An awful and terrible way to go."
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Jeez… Reading that was a real downer 