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Beejoli Shah

12/03/13 12:54PM

Filed to: Paul Walker

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Paul Walker's death was not the result of a street race. Accident investigators "have received eyewitness statements that the car involved was traveling alone at a high rate of speed."

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monch534 Beejoli Shah 12/03/13 05:12PM

If he was still going 40 mph at the moment he lose control, how fast was he going before he applied the brakes? A 15 mph corner is, as a rule, pretty tight. Any safe driver necessarily slows down when he enters one. Drag racing or not, there is a lesson here. Physics is a bitch.

monch534 monch534 12/03/13 05:15PM

And as a resident of LA, I'm only surprised this doesn't happen more often. I regularly see luxury cars doing 70+ on surface streets with a limit of 35. Usually at night, but often in broad daylight.

monch534 monch534 12/03/13 05:16PM

And finally, can we all agree that this entire discourse would be very different it had been Justin Bieber?

awesome0 Beejoli Shah 12/03/13 02:29PM

OK, so it was a time-trial instead of a race. Is that technical enough for you? They were still going way too fast.