Paul Walker liked his cars fast and furious — he once boasted about hitting a top speed of 185 MPH — and it wasn’t on a racetrack, it was on a freeway! “The Fast & The Furious” star — who died in a fiery car crash on Saturday — made the revelation on GTChannel back in 2011, while taking a Nissan GT-R out for a test spin in Japan. “The fastest I’ve ever gone is 184 to 186,” Walker says on the video …. and then he reveals how fast he was clocked on an actual racetrack. So sad watching past footage of Walker! May he rest in peace, see him below!
New York Train Was Going 82 MPH When It Derailed
The commuter train involved in a deadly derailment in the Bronx was doing 82 mph as it entered the 30-mph curve where it jumped the tracks. The National Transportation Safety Board based that number on preliminary data from the event recorders taken from the locomotive and another car. The data showed the engineer cut the throttle six seconds before the locomotive came to rest and applied the brakes five seconds before, a move Weener said came “very late in the game.” But the engineer, William Rockefeller, and the rest of the train crew were still being questioned Monday afternoon, and the cause of the derailment has not yet been determined. We will have more as it comes in.
