Paul Walker’s daughter sues Porsche for dad’s death

The late -Paul Walker’s daughter has decided that Porsche was responsible for her father’s death after the Fast And Furious star died in a fatal car crash while racing his rare Porsche.

CNN reports that Walker’s daughter has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, claiming the sports car he was riding in had multiple design flaws.

The suit, filed Monday on behalf of 16-year-old Meadow Rain Walker, seeks unspecified damages for defects it alleges contributed to her father’s death.

“The bottom line is that the Porsche Carrera GT is a dangerous car. It doesn’t belong on the street,” Walker’s attorney, Jeff Milam, said in a statement. “And we shouldn’t be without Paul Walker or his friend, Roger Rodas.”

Calvin Kim with Porsche North America off ice said the automaker hasn’t seen the lawsuit and wouldn’t comment on specifics.

“As we have said before, we are saddened whenever anyone is hurt in a Porsche vehicle, but we believe the authorities’ reports in this case clearly established that this tragic crash resulted from reckless driving and excessive speed,” Kim said.

The actor was best known for his role as Brian O’Conner in the “Fast and Furious” franchise. His life was cut short in a car crash in Southern California on November 30, 2013, during a few days off in the filming of the seventh movie in the popular series. He was 40.

The lawsuit alleges “the vehicle lacked safety features that are found on well-designed racing cars or even Porsche’s least expensive road cars — features that could have prevented the accident or, at a minimum, allowed Paul Walker to survive the crash.”

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The court document contends the 2005 Carrera GT should have come with an electronic stability control system to protect against swerving. The car also lacked adequate side door reinforcement bars and had defective rubber fuel lines, according to the lawsuit.

An investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it was speed that killed the “Fast & Furious” star.

“Investigators determined the cause of the fatal solo-vehicle collision was unsafe speed for the roadway conditions,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Commander Mike Parker said in March 2014.

The high-performance 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was going “between 80 and 93 mph at the time the car impacted a power pole and several trees,” the report said. The posted speed limit on the Santa Clarita, California, office park road was 45 mph.

The sheriff’s conclusion was no surprise, since the coroner’s report previously estimated the car was speeding at 100 mph.

The lawsuit portrays a much-slower moving vehicle — one that was traveling “at approximately 63 to 71 mph when it suddenly went out of control.”

Possibly to explain the damage to the car in a lower-speed accident, the suit says the doors on the Porsche used “side door reinforcement bars that lacked adequate welds and consisted of material weaker in strength than what is used in popular mass-market cars … designed and built to be operated at speeds much slower than the Carrera”.

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