A federal judge ruled to rejected a wrongful death lawsuit that challenged car company Porsche to be responsible over the death of the Fast & Furious star Paul Walker and his friend, Roger Rodas. The late actor and his friend who was the driver of Porsche car both died in the said vehicle accident.
According to Time, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez ruled Monday that the automobile manufacturer Porsche is not held liable over the fatal car crash of American actor Paul Walker and Roger Rodas who was driving the Porsche Carrera GT when the accident occurred in 2013.
Plaintiff Kristine Rodas, the widow of the car's driver, filed the lawsuit claiming the said Porsche car has no important safety features. According to an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the cause of the accident was that Porsche car went out of control with 80 and 93 mph on a road in Santa Clarita, California on November 2013 and impacted a power pole and several trees. The judge denied the lawsuit case due to insufficient concrete evidence.
Rodas' widow filed the lawsuit in May 2014, the US Magazine reported. Porsche's suspension failed before the crash and that the sports car lacked a crash cage and fuel cell, the suit alleges. The federal judge noted Rodas' cause of death wasn't related to fire. Rodas suffered burns but ultimately died from blunt trauma, Gutierrez said.
The luxury car company has denied all the defect allegations in the design, manufacture or marketing of the Carrera GT, CBC News reported. A separate lawsuit was also brought by Walker's daughter, Meadow, who claims the car was "altered" and "improperly maintained" leading to the accident.
Walker was in the midst of a break from filming "Furious 7" when the fatal car crash happened. The film, one of the biggest box office hits of 2015, was completed partly with the help of his two brothers, who filled in as body doubles.
