Porsche Denies Any Responsibility In Paul Walker Lawsuit

Porsche has said that it cannot be held responsible for the death of ‘Fast & Furious’ actor Paul Walker.

The German car manufacturer has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit by the late star’s daughter, Meadow Walker.

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Walker, and his friend Roger Rodas, died in a car crash while driving a Porsche Carerra GT in November, 2013, during a break in filming 'Fast & Furious 7’.

Rodas was at the wheel at the time of the crash, and was driving over the speed limit when the car careered off the road and into a lamppost. Minutes later, it burst into flames.

“As we have said before, we are very sad whenever anyone is hurt in a Porsche vehicle, but we believe the authorities’ reports in this case clearly establish that this tragic crash resulted from reckless driving and excessive speed,” a spokesperson told The Wrap.

The denial comes after lawyers representing Walker’s daughter issued a suit claiming that the car lacked safety features that could have prevented the accident.

Last year, Rodas’s wife issued a similar suit against Porsche, also targeting a lack of the necessary safety features, and failure of the car’s suspension system.

Long before the crash, concerns had been raised about the safety of the car in the motoring press.

Walter Rohrl, a world rally champion and veteran Porsche test driver told Drive website back in 2003 that it was 'the first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared’.

“I came back into the pits and I was white,” he said following laps on a wet test track.

The GT was also involved in a fatal crash at the California Speedway in 2006, and incident which also called into question whether the car has sufficient safety features, notably electronic stability control.

Famously, talk show host Jay Leno, who is also an expert driver and mechanic, lost control and span out during laps in a GT at the Talladega circuit in 2005.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Clarkson, who praised the car for its speed when he tested it on Top Gear, added 'you need to be awake to drive this car fast’.

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