Very sad. What a stupid stupid way to die. Completely preventable. I feel so bad for his family.
Stuff like this is somewhat job related, and I like reading about fatal accidents and their cause as it helps me figure out what we can do to stop others.
It can be a little gruesome, though. 
Not that stupid…accidents happen all the time. It’s not as if he jumped off a bridge while drunk at a party. He simply got into a car with a friend he’d known for years and that man had an accident.
I just left the car show he was scheduled to be at today. Another charity gig, this one was toys for tots.
Lots of the cars had stickers a RIP Paul Walker on them.
I say this with all sincerity, I hope both of them were killed instantly as I would not wish death by fire on anyone.
With that said when you go off road with so much velocity that hitting a light pole causes the car to burst into flames you have crossed the line from “had an accident” to actively stupid. That type of speed belongs on a track, and only on a track. I mean what if there had been another car on the road or what if there had been a kid crossing the street?
I suspect when they autopsy the driver they will find blood and guts but no brains. It is too bad his stupidity killed Mr. Walker.
I waited 72 hrs after Princess Diana, 24 for Bob Hope, 12 hrs for Mikey Jackson. No joking for a solid week after 9/11, though.
You do know he wasn’t the driver, right?
I think the ‘his’ in what you quote refers to the driver, himself.
Wow. Reading the post I quoted AND the sentence of mine you quoted and you are under the impression I thought Paul Walker was driving?
Wow, just wow. Words fail me.
I didn’t want to be rude. But I wondered about the comprehension of someone who read that paragraph and still thought you thought Walker was driving.
Ditto. I tried to gently point it out.
I could have written the first line of your post, but wouldn’t have.
Second line? I’ve never seen them, but how would I know, and how would you know, if you don’t know or care? How did you manage to see them, not knowing or caring?
Threadshit much?
Other than that, this impact took some hella-speed to accomplish. I’d classify that as ‘Darwin Award’, rather than ‘accident’. It took real work to accomplish that one.
ETA: Already addressed. Ignore my criticism of the post.
Keep in mind that the frame is carbon fibre and not metal, so a lot of that damage might be from the resulting fire and not the initial impact.
I guess I get to be the inevitable pedant on this one.
If Walker had starred in a series of driver safety films called Careful and Cautious, then his death in a speeding car crash would be ironic. But dying in a way that is quite similar to the plots of his Fast and Furious films is coincidental or if you’re like **PSXer **and don’t like him or those films, poetic justice.
But do feel bad for the guy, even if I think those films sort of suck. He didn’t deserve that.
Apparently the driver (Not PW) had some racing experience. Court: Porsche not at fault in Paul Walker, Roger Rodas crash
This only reinforces my opinion that it took active stupidity to have a crash this severe on a public road. A race driver should know better.
Not much fire damage at all on that tree, except for breaking it off near the ground. It was mostly impact damage. Not much fire at all. I’m highly skeptical that there was much fire. I still vote for impact damage, and a Darwin.
Oh, yeah. Carbon fibre is mostly some carbon fibres, which will burn well, in an epoxy resin, which mostly won’t, unless you’re fueling it with something else. The carbon fibres in it won’t work as fuel, unless you light up the epoxy resin with something else.
I don’t buy it. Especially since the tree they rammed shows little to no fire damage, in the pic I linked, above.
The articles I saw said they hit a light pole, so presumably hitting the tree was a secondary collision.
They woulda had to hit it real fucking hard to go entirely through it, leaving no pieces of it, then hit the tree like that. It would have required an even higher speed than was actually postulated. I’m a bit skeptical of that version.
That really sucks. The guy was never going to win an Oscar, but he was likable and a nice dude by all accounts.
Aren’t light poles typically designed to break away?