At least he didn’t burn alive.
Gee that's tough. My sympathy indicator just zeroed out.
Didn't the car he was driving cost north of $400K?
Kind of ironic that a man who made a living going fast and a man who made a living staring in movies about going fast both die in a car going too fast.
- Life can be hard for some people
- It is a lot harder if you choose to be stupid!
I estimated 85 mph 3 days ago...
Just missed it....
Who is Paul Walker?
One of the worst things I have ever seen was a wreck at LeMans. It was a long time ago and the film was B&W. The car had a magnesium body for weight savings and the wreck was not that bad but it began to burn.
One of the French officials immediately jumped out of the woods with a fire extinguisher. At first he began trying to put out the fire but as soon as he moved the extinguisher the fire would jump back up. He then kept spraying the driver and another couple of people at first tried to pull him out but the fire was too hot.
Eventually several people arrived with extinguishers but it was hopeless the car just burned fiercely until it consumed everything.
Army Staff Sgt. Alex A. Viola
Died November 17, 2013 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
29, of Keller, Texas, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; died Nov. 17, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device while on dismounted patrol.
Army Staff Sgt. Richard L. Vazquez
Died November 13, 2013 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
28, of Seguin, Texas; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; died Nov. 13, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device while on dismounted patrol in Panjwai, Afghanistan.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Forrest W. Robertson
Died November 3, 2013 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
35, of Westmoreland, Kan., assigned to 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, Fort Stewart, Ga.; died Nov. 3 in Puli Alam, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by small-arms fire.
Who is Paul Walker?
I think he was a Christian and he did a lot of charity work.
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?
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.
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.
Love all the FReepers here jumping to wrong conclusions and making insulting comments. Paul Walker WASN’T DRIVING. He was a passenger!
Seemed like a genuinely nice gentleman.
From the Inquisitor:
“...As Walker checked out the jewelry, a soldier who had just returned from his first tour of duty in Iraq was also there looking at engagement rings with his fiancee.
“She saw something that she really, really liked, but he said, ‘Honey, I can’t afford that,’” King recalled.
What the woman looked at was a $10,000 engagement set, King noted.
Paul Walker also heard the couple, and quietly got the attention of a store manager.
“He called the manager and he said, ‘Umm, the ring that those people are looking at – put it on my tab,’” King remembered. “Soon after that, he just left.”