rodas was driving the porsche carrera gt. walker, star of the movie series fast & furious was in the passenger seat. the porsche slammed into a light pole in valencia, california, before bursting into flames. casey wian with the new details today from the autopsy report. casey, what have you learned? well, brooke, the report released by the coroner today contained very limited amounts of information. but that information, very, very revealing. he revealed that paul walker died of the combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries. why is that important? the thermal injuries means that the explosion, the fire that occurred as we now know from the video obtained by cnn, surveillance video of the area, that fire didn t aoccur until a full minute after the initial crash. that means in some capacity, paul walker was still alive for several moment after the initial impact. the driver of the car, roger
rarer. when they do wreck there s nothing left to them. reporter: he said there were 15 carrera gts in las vegas. now there are only six. very hard car to drive. pure racer s car. you really need to know what you re doing when you drive them. people are learning the hard way. reporter: he also taught the actors in the second fast and furious movie, including paul walker. worked with all the stars of the film, paul, gibson. reporter: let me ask you honestly, how was paul? paul was, by far, the best driver, a natural car guy. reporter: as for the car, pobst says driving a car like the porsche carrera gt for the experienced driver matches a thrill few experiences can match. the higher you rev the engine, the more it pulls. you feel it right in the chest, pushing you back.
off screen. also new this morning, walker s father choking back tears as he remembered his son. i was proud of him every day of his life. he he was always doing stuff for us. always big gestures. he just his heart was so big. many people are asking whether the porsche carrera gt involved in the crash is simply too hot to handle. we re joined by professional race car driver nicole lyons and car crash reconstructionist. i want to start with you. to my untrained eye, all i see is a crash into the light pole but i don t actually see it and then i see smoke and flames. what do those pictures tell you? the light pole that you spoke of was a breakaway pole. and that one broke and it s
they heard the krocrash. it was a couple, three minutes by the time they got there. by the time they got there, that s what the smoke looked like right there. it s the lonely 60 seconds of no smoke, no fire in the porsche carrera gt when those men were inside that vehicle obviously unable to get out. we ll hear this afternoon from the coroner. we ll hear this afternoon from the coroner. sorry, i was going to tell you we ll get preliminary autopsy results perhaps within a couple hours from the coroner, talk to the coroner investigator short time ago. we should have a positive identification. now, everything is presumed that it was roger rodas and paul walker in the car. and it s also presumed, based on witness statements, that rodas was behind the wheel because that s how they were when they left the shop minutes earlier. however, what we don t really know, did they switch seats? was walker driving?
it wasn t the car, when it makes contact with the ridged object like this, it might make a loud bang noise. but it wouldn t explode. so there was some flammable liquid in the car or was it just gas in the gas tank? well, from what was being recorded and being shown, i saw that a gentleman making a statement that he believed that the gas tank is in the front, i believe in this vehicle. and i believe it s right behind the seat. okay. so what do these pictures tell you about speed? how fast might this car have been traveling? i m not a car designer. but i do know about, you know, these particular more of these exotic ones. they re made in three sections. and the first they start with