No
drugs, alcohol in 'Fast & Furious' star's fatal crash: coroner
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[January 04, 2014]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — No drugs or
alcohol were found in the bodies of "Fast & Furious" actor Paul
Walker and his friend Roger Rodas after the fiery car crash that
killed them in November, a coroner's report released on Friday said.
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Both Walker, 40, and Rodas, 38, tested negative for alcohol,
and drugs including cocaine, opiates and marijuana were not
detected, said the report from the Los Angeles County coroner's
office.
The report included an early account of the accident from the
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, dated Dec. 1 — the day
after the crash — saying the Porsche Carrera GT driven by Rodas
was traveling at "an unsafe speed, approximately 100+ mph."
But a sheriff's spokeswoman said the investigation into the
accident has not been completed and there was no definitive
finding on the car's speed.
Both deaths were ruled accidents. Walker died from "combined
effects of traumatic and thermal injuries," and Rodas from
"multiple traumatic injuries," the report said.
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Walker was in the process of filming "Fast & Furious
7" at the time and production was halted a few days later.
Universal Pictures said last month that the release of the seventh
installment in the highly lucrative franchise would be pushed back
by nine months to April 2015. Walker will appear in the film.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Mary
Milliken; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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