family and fans of paul walker continue to mourn. fast cars and high octane driving, the keys of the fast & furious franchise. and possibly the cause of death for one of the film s stars. investigators say they believe the fiery crash that killed paul walker and a friend on saturday involved a single speeding car. his fast & furious could star vin deechl visited the crash site monday night. he addressed a crowd gathered at the memorial. thank you for coming down here and showing that this angel up in heaven how much you appreciate him. reporter: omg insider obtained this surveillance video showing the moment it slammed into a light pole. we have confirmed two doa. reporter: the l.a. county s sheriff department investigated and ruled out a tip that it may have been the result of a street race. when they passed us, there
we re talking about a 600 plus horsepower car. it s a race car. and like books like he said, it breaks away in three different areas which is designed for on the track. and on the track barriers. not curbs and trees and poles or any of those type of things. so had they been driving a normal, everyday car and they hit a curb, maybe the accident would have turned out differently? i m not saying that maybe the accident would have turned out differently. but the normal car is, you know, 200 high 200 to low 300 horsepower. has traction control and all of those things. so the actual breakaway and being able to get away from the driver is going to be a lot less. this car incident have traction control. it s a full-on race car. so it can easily, like you said, hit a beer can and steer you wrong. that s just so sad.
the motor cup. a bowl or cup. then they attach the drive train to it. and then they re married together. assembled or fastened together. and they are they are made to breakaway right behind the so the car is designed to come apart, in other words, right? in an event in a crash like this, it s designed to break apart. and that s what happened here. so as far as how fast the car was going, what s your best guess? i i think it s in excess of 45. and being a highway designer myself, i believe that this is a curbed highway. and so typically we design curb highways to be to design speed to be 45 mile an hour. but this car in your mind was
the community. and he was so kind. it s great that you have the memories to hold on to. nancy, did you realize right away what had happened? anderson, i think i claim part of being irish is just kind of being intuitive. and i honestly after i sent the first text and didn t hear from him and then sent the second text, i i knew. i knew. i knew that he was one of the victims. i didn t want to believe it. and i, you know, kind of slowly made my way to the car and made my way down to the scene. but it was pretty clear to me. in my heart, i knew. and i mean, this just happened it was different morning.
rene marsh, live from washington this morning. now to the sudden death of fast and furious star paul walker. drag racing has been ruled out as the cause of that deadly crash. new surveillance video to show you. this was obtained by omg insider. it shows the moment that walker s porsche slammed into a light pole. it appears to refute came that is another car was involved. fire extinguishers were pull friday their cars. and they ran to the car to try to distinguish the flames. vin diesl was at the crash site and thanked supporters over a loud speaker. thank you for coming down here and showing us how much you appreciated him. also new this morning, walker s father choking back tears as he remembered his son s