Crash Walker by high speed (150 km/h) and old tyres

Posted on 26-03-2014 at 8:46 pm by sir_smokalot – 36 Comments”

The American Sherrif’s Department has its investigation into the fatal accident of Paul Walker and Roger Rodas completed, and comes to the conclusion that a vehicle speed of 93 mph (eur 149.6 km/h) the root cause of the Carrera GT crash.

The above will not come as a surprise, but it is a conclusion of the investigative agencies and there is for the first time an exact number on the vehicle speed stuck. That there to hard it was driven was obviously, and also the estimates of ca. 160 km/h were pretty accurate, now seems to be.

The LA Times quotes the responsible sheriff: “Investigators determined the cause of the fatal solo-vehicle collision was unsafe speed for the roadway conditions.” However, what has also not helped was the fact that the tyres in the Porsche 9 years old, even though they had probably not much mileage. The advice is still generally you rubber every 6 years to replace, in the case of the Carrera GT even 4 years.

But, for the avoidance of doubt, if driver Roger Rodas are (somewhat) to the speed limit of 45 mph had held the gentlemen had probably lived. Earlier rumors about a serious technical defect in the car seem to be with this almost-completed research also definitively into the Realm of Fiction referred to be.

Finally: “There is also evidence that this particular vehicle had been altered from its original design state and had not been maintained properly,” said Porsche North America in a statement. This seems, perhaps, to the cleaning of the own interests, but you can’t order the facts.