Should Porsche Be Held Accountable For The Death Of Paul Walker?
Paul Walker died in a car accident on 30 November 2013. He was the passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT that was being driven at an “unsafe speed for the roadway conditions“ by his racing driver friend Roger Rodas. When Rodas lost control of the car which smashed into a lamp post and a tree, they were travelling at between 80mph and 93mph on Michelin tyres that were thought to be nine years old.
Since Walker and Rodas’ death, tears have been shed and emotional tributes have been paid. But as with some high profile cases in the past, law suits have also been made. And that’s happened no fewer than three times against Porsche at the hands of Rodas’ widow, Walker’s daughter and now, Walker’s father.
Being brutally honest, I’m sick of hearing about yet more legal action that’s being taken against Porsche because the car “didn’t have safety features which might have prevented his death.” If this is grounds to be suing Porsche, then why not go after Michelin, the lamp post and the tree that destroyed the car and took the mens’ lives? Hell, if I ever crash and lose a limb does that mean that I can call up Mazda and tell them that I’ll be suing them because my 20-year-old MX-5 didn’t have proper crumple zones? I don’t think so…
In my eyes, this new lawsuit does nothing but cast a dirty cloud over the tragedy. Poorly maintained cars get fragile, tyres perish, and people drive like idiots every single day. Bearing in mind that all of these factors were present on that fateful day, I don’t think that Porsche should be held accountable for their deaths.
What’s your view on this?
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The equivalent of suing the manufacturer of the gun that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria for the first world war.
This should be in the top 10 comments of this week, and the top 10 comments of this year.
Why not sue the city of Los Angeles for placing a lamp post and a tree there?
Wasn’t the tires with the expirated date the cause of the accident?
I read somewhere that the tyres were nine years old
I do find it strange how Paul Walker survived the initial crash, but the seatbelt broke several bones in his body and how the vehicle caught fire and burned him alive. Has anyone seen the statistics of vehicles catching fire? It is extremely low. Maybe this is what the argument is about, the safety at the immediate moment of impact, rather than stability/control of the vehicle to prevent the crash.
The thing is, the car was modified. At that point Porsche can pretty confidently wipe their hands of any blame because the car was not up to their factory specification at the time of the accident.
I hate Porsche. But why the hell would you bother trying to sue them
It’s Americans who started all this suing bullshit 15 years ago. Back then the whole world laughed at their’s justice department. Now some people think it’s normal to sue a company if you’re an idiot and hurt yourself with someone’s product.
It has been a lot longer than 1 5 years they have gone direct to sue everything!
Porsche had nothing to do with Paul’s death, the driver of the car on the otherhand did.
He was speeding and lost control.
Everyone kind of knew this car wasn’t the safest thing out there to begin with, they should have respected it more than they did.
Nope, and its an insult to their memory’s.
Just shows how much of a money grabbing bstard his father is.
Parenting done right!
and over 65 WOW :|