RIP Paul Walker - killed in a CGT's passenger seat

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Originally Posted by Perfectlap

I really don't believe that car was going 100 mph at the point of impact. This wasn't a normal car, it was an as close to racing car as you may ever see short of something like the P1. Such a car hitting anything at 100 mph would have disintegrated. People forget that most of that damage was done by the fire after the crash. And indeed the fire left it a rubble but the wheels were still attached to that car and the tub looked to be relatively whole, the occupants still strapped in. I said it from the start, the impact did not kill both of those guys, this was a survivable crash for at least one of the guys. The one who didn't take the brunt of the light pole impact the door side.

I'm sure we will find out soon enough. A back-of-a-napkin calculation of the forces required to break off the starter motor and hurl it 120' into a second story office window suggests 100mph+ to me... but I could be wrong.