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Email Reeking A Joke On Carrera GT Crashes Strengthens Paul Walker's Suit Vs Porsche

Feb 21, 2017 04:24 AM EST

More than three years after Fast and Furious star Paul Walker and his driver Roger Rodas died in a car crash, they might both get justice served this year. That is if the email of a still unnamed Porsche employee will get much merit in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Walker's daughter against the car company.

Meadow Walker through her lawyer Jeffry L. Milam has recently sought $52,732.50 against Porsche over the redactions. They charged the company for concealing the email that they said contained explosive information, describing that Porsche Carerra GT is "dangerous and unsafe".

Meadow's lawyer further elaborated that the company hid other vital information such as good witnesses who could testify in Walker's case. He bared to the media a damaging portion of the content of the email of one Porsche employee, manager as reported in other newspapers: "Another Carrera GT bites the dust and crashes of GTs would be great news to the remaining owners as the GT becomes more rare."

The email also stated that Porsche produced a total of 1,280 Carrera GT units for worldwide production and in that year 2006, there were about 200 units which "were already totaled", a phrase suggesting crashes. Another Porsche employee corroborated that whenever he drove Carrera GT the "high crash rate" of the brand was always at the back of his mind.

Paul's daughter is still in the thick of getting something from Porsche. She was only awarded $10.1 million in a settlement case with the driver's estate which accepted that Roger had "partial responsibility" for the accident. Meadow has been insistent that what caused her father's death was the faulty safety features of Carrera GT.

Walker died at the age of just 40 after the Porsche Carrera GT that Roger drove crashed into a lamp post and two trees in Santa Clarita, California in November 2013. In September 2015 Meadow filed her multi-claim complaint on behalf of her father and his driver.

Porche lawyers have always been arguing that it was Roger, who was at fault for the accident. In July 2016 a California judge rejected Porsche lawyers' motion to dismiss Meadow's lawsuit.

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