Paul Walker dead

[SPBHM]

don't know who this is but RIP

the guy from "The Fast and the Furious", shouldn't be to hard to know who he is...

I don't know much about him, but his fast and furious work was pretty significant and people talk good things about him, and it looks like he was a big car enthusiast and... a passenger on this crash;

RIP

 

[rh71]

Wow looks horrible - hopefully death on impact in that case. Death by fire is just about the most terrible.

Unless they just rolled up on that tree - can't believe a small tree could withstand that impact yet larger trees fall in hurricanes.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Its not a hoax and it was a Carrera GT

 

[Kaido]

Well...based on what's left of the car...which would be a small red chunk of plastic or fiberglass... (😵)

I'm thinking it was a high-end 911. The Carerra GT wasn't ever made in anything but silver, was it?

edit: nevermind, a quick GIS says it was definitely available in a few colors at some point. But brightly-colored Porsche definitely still makes me think hi-po 911 and not Carrera GT.

Yeah, they're saying it was Porsche Carrera GT. It sounds like he was going on test drives with people in his new car and he was the passenger in the vehicle. Stinks.

 

[Kaido]

He was just talking about Fast & Furious 8 (number 7 is/was coming out in 2014) and how the studio wanted to do 8, 9, and 10 even though he'd be 50:

http://screencrush.com/paul-walker-fast-and-furious-8/

 

[EvilYoda]

He might go largely unknown, but I thought he was a decent actor - more than able to fulfill his given mediocre roles. I haven't read much about his young age and presumably dying in a Porsche, but I hope the James Dean references find their own place.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.signalscv.com/section/36/article/109902/ :\

Firefighters spray water on the wreckage of a Porsche sports car that crashed into a light standard on Hercules Street in the Rye Canyon Industrial Park in Valencia on Saturday.

A sheriff's deputy at the scene of a crash in the Rye Canyon Business Park in Valencia where two people were killed when a Porsche crashed Saturday.

 

[Kaido]

Another shot of the crash:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19808savvt2fhjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

 

[dennilfloss]

Fast & Furious?

Never watched those movies. Ditto for the Ocean's ## series. Movies that glorify criminal behaviour aren't my cup of tea.

 

[postmortemIA]

that is some strong tree.

 

[Kaido]

Some larger shots:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/paul-walker-dies-in-car-accident

That car is completely demolished. Scary 🙁

 

[Kaido]

that is some strong tree.

Seriously, it looks pretty small, but there's a tremendous amount of damage to the vehicle:

http://imgur.com/a/lxpYK

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/30/showbiz/actor-paul-walker-dies/index.html

Walker's publicist Ame van Iden confirmed his death, but said she could not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker's official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Walker was a passenger in a friend's car and both were headed to a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, according to a statement posted on his Facebook page. The website for the charity indicated there was an event in Southern California on Saturday to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, citing a sheriff's deputy at the scene, said a red Porsche appeared to have lost control and struck a tree.
Deputies arrived at the scene to find a vehicle on fire, the sheriff's department said in a statement.
Once fire crews put the flames out, they found two occupants, both of whom were pronounced dead at the scene.

 

[dbk]

RIP Paul Walker aka Brian O'Connor

 

[Triumph]

His official Facebook page confirming the death: https://www.facebook.com/PaulWalker/posts/690316711002596

When someone announces a death on FB and it gets 321,000 likes, does that mean that they like that he's dead?

 

[desiplaya4life]

When someone announces a death on FB and it gets 321,000 likes, does that mean that they like that he's dead?

yes

 

[Printer Bandit]

Any after pics?

 

[Schmide]

So this really is life imitating art.

 

[Dari]

Someone in ATCG once told me that Porsches are widow makers. Damn. I loved the F&F series too.

 

[OlafSicky]

It being reported that Vin Disel was in the car with him RIP

 

[KLin]

It being reported that Vin Disel was in the car with him RIP

yea right 🙄

 

[zerocool84]

It always sucks when someone dies because of someone else's choice like being a passenger in a car or someone killing someone while driving drunk. Go ahead and do something stupid and kill yourself, not someone else.

 

[Kaido]

It always sucks when someone dies because of someone else's choice like being a passenger in a car or someone killing someone while driving drunk. Go ahead and do something stupid and kill yourself, not someone else.

Yup, and that's the flip side - what if that tree had just been someone waiting for a bus?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Paul Who?? Looked him up on IMDb. Don't think I've seen a single movie that he did. Haven't even heard of most of them.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Paul Who?? Looked him up on IMDb. Don't think I've seen a single movie that he did. Haven't even heard of most of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VAW0pUwHnE

seemed like a down to earth, chill guy.