‘Driver to blame for Paul Walker’s death’

The driver was to blame in the fiery crash of a Porsche sports car that killed actor Paul Walker in California in 2013, not design defects with the car, attorneys for the German carmaker have said.

Walker was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by Roger Rodas, who lost control of the vehicle before it careened into trees and a utility pole in Santa Clarita, north-west of Los Angeles, killing both men.

Rodas’s widow filed a lawsuit against Porsche’s North American unit last year, alleging negligence and wrongful death among other claims.