Posted on 12/04/2013 5:42:43 PM PST by grundle
Sheriff's detective Jeff Maag told People magazine the driver "was doing well over 45 [mph] – [it's] fair to say at least twice that."
That means Maag believes Rodas was going at least 90 mph on a street where the limit was just 45.
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Absolutely...People driving 90mph in a 45 on public roads are certainly not professional drivers by any stretch of the imagination.
Walker was a passenger.
When I was young I did so many stupid things that it is little short of a miracle that I am alive. Actually there was one incident in which there is no way I should have lived but somehow did.
When you are young you think you are invulnerable.
- No more free charity work for Walker
His kids must be thrilled
IIRC, Walker wasn't driving, but was a passenger.
“Walker chose to commit suicide”
Walker was not driving.
Professional or amateur...it doesn't matter.
“When you are young you think you are invulnerable.”
If that wasn’t fun I don’t know what was!
I really didn’t know who the guy was. 40 is too young for someone to die....but seriously, if you drive like that, what do you expect?
He was the passenger, not the driver.
I still think he hit one of those lane reflectors.
I know on two of my cars I’m very aware when I hit them and sometimes they cause my car to skip to one side.
I’m well experienced at hitting those damn things but, if exceed the speed limit by twice as much.....well...stuff happens and it’s too bad these guys ate it.
Hope God took them home.
Apparently there was a malfunction with the $400,000 car — a leak of some sort. That speed isn’t much for a high performance car.
A nice guy by all accounts. Sad he had to die so young.
He did, they said he died from injuries and the fire in what I’ve read.
The one video shows someone bouncing around in the fire as well at the crash scene.
Excellent post.
Walker was a passenger, the driver was another 38 year old who was a race car driver among other things.
They lost control of the car and spun out of control which is typical for that car.
Jay Leno had the same thing happen in the same model car.
In 1966, I had a 55 Ford with a 272 V8. That old car was surprisingly fast.
Around the first of June, I was headed home from college. It was around 10P.M. I was cruising through the Eglin AFB reservation doing 110. I had it in high/overdrive and it was cruising smoothly. I was approaching DeFuniak Springs and was just thinking of slowing down.
I had noticed a few patches of fog and had thought to myself that, that was strange. Suddenly I was totally inside a white fog. It was exactly as if I had closed my eyes. I hit the brakes and felt the right wheels go off the road. I pulled to the left and almost immediately everything was clear.
I could see flashing lights in the mirror and the first thing which went through my mind was that I had hit a car and was dead. The flashing lights were an ambulance or cop car.
As it turned out, it was a mosquito spraying truck being driven by one of my friends. He was in the same lane I had been in seconds before doing 110.
When the brakes pulled to the right, I over corrected and pulled to the left and passed the truck.
It took maybe ten minutes for it to really hit me. There was just no way I should have lived through that. It did slow me down for a few years but eventually I began to drive fast again. I guess getting married and being a father slowed me down more than anything.
He started believing his own movies.
Hickman’s screen time in that movie is INCREDIBLE. He’s on screen for all of 1/10th of a second (exaggeration) and still pumps out 1 billion cool-guy points.
How’s THIS for little known facts... Watch “Patton” Who’s Patton’s driver? Check the credits. You guessed it... Hickman.
They say that.
The coroner who actually examined the body says he died in seconds, the fire didn’t start for a full minute.
He was dead by then.
Easy enough to tell, no smoke or burns in the lungs.
The driver may have been the one moving, or heat shimmer and a trick of flickering flames and roiling smoke may have looked like deliberate motion.
Patton’s real life driver was from Abbeville, Alabama. His wife worked in the Probate Judge’s office. I used to search records there occasionally and met her several times.
Are you talking about the driver in “Bullit” who wore the driver’s gloves?
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