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Elliot Cannon
post May 13 2014, 05:20 PM
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I'm surprised it took this long. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?...p;ocid=ansent11
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post May 13 2014, 05:31 PM
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I was there that morning, drove around the same corner.
"Wife clams he was driving 55". Yeah but in a 25 mph zone around a 90 degree off camber corner, That has a 15mph yellow warning sign. Not the cars fault.
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post May 13 2014, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE(Mike D. @ May 13 2014, 04:31 PM) *

I was there that morning, drove around the same corner.
"Wife clams he was driving 55". Yeah but in a 25 mph zone around a 90 degree off camber corner, That has a 15mph yellow warning sign. Not the cars fault.


Two words. Deep pockets. How much do you think Porsche will pay to make this go away?
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post May 13 2014, 05:58 PM
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Oh not this story again . . .

Regardless, and maybe I am remembering this wrong but . . . at the time of the accident it was repeatedly reported that the CGT in question had been modified quite a bit, no? Combined with the police findings of excessive speed (I believe the official finding was over 100mph) . . I see Porsche's giant lawyers squashing this one pretty quickly.

It's an angry, grieving widow looking for someone other than her husband to take the blame I think.

I feel for her.
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post May 13 2014, 06:05 PM
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He was driving 55 BEFORE the accident. How fast at the time of the accident. Can she sue his parents for designing a faulty driver?
It's sad but...
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post May 13 2014, 06:33 PM
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QUOTE(MDG @ May 13 2014, 07:58 PM) *

Oh not this story again . . .

Regardless, and maybe I am remembering this wrong but . . .

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Of course you are.

Are you even in the right thread?
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post May 13 2014, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ May 13 2014, 04:20 PM) *

I'm surprised it took this long. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?...p;ocid=ansent11




Yeh I'm thinkin that a 100k + car is not very likely to be defective

And i know this state ment will not be popular here but

Public roads are not race tracks "



I mean you roll the dice with your life and you will pay the price .

But then again I think anybody with a cgt is a idiot for not buying a
550 jimmy dean replica , if your gonna die in a car the 550 is really the only way
To go .


But I m prejudice to air cooled over ,h20








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post May 13 2014, 08:12 PM
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QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ May 13 2014, 04:40 PM) *

QUOTE(Mike D. @ May 13 2014, 04:31 PM) *

I was there that morning, drove around the same corner.
"Wife clams he was driving 55". Yeah but in a 25 mph zone around a 90 degree off camber corner, That has a 15mph yellow warning sign. Not the cars fault.


Two words. Deep pockets. How much do you think Porsche will pay to make this go away?



I hope Porsche doesn't pay a dime. And that this lady and her scam lawyer have to Porsche's court costs.
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post May 13 2014, 09:08 PM
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Porsche needs this to go away. They can't afford to tarnish the brand.
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post May 14 2014, 04:11 AM
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I'm sure this will go away eventually. Really, I feel for the family, but nothing is going to bring him back. This is purely greed. By the way, how did the widow know the speed? Unless they had a black box (which some new cars are coming with), there is no what to truly know.
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post May 14 2014, 04:22 AM
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QUOTE(Mike Bellis @ May 13 2014, 11:08 PM) *

Porsche needs this to go away. They can't afford to tarnish the brand.


Porsche Tarnished the Brand when they made SUV's (Now 2), 4 Door Luxobarges, put Plastic Parts in Motors, the IMS debacle, etc.

New Porsches Suck! I would not even like a used Porsche from the last 15-20 years.

As far as the Lawsuit goes, the Widow & her Lawyers are Maggots - maybe they should sue the Trees & Lightpole that they hit too. Maybe the Brand of Gas that was in the GT that caught fire!

The Carrera GT had 5 previous Owners and that Nut Job was doing 90+ MPH - he made Darwin proud!
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post May 14 2014, 05:33 AM
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QUOTE(r_towle @ May 13 2014, 08:33 PM) *

QUOTE(MDG @ May 13 2014, 07:58 PM) *

Oh not this story again . . .

Regardless, and maybe I am remembering this wrong but . . .

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Of course you are.

Are you even in the right thread?


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post May 14 2014, 06:08 AM
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I hope Porsche decides to counter sue to recover their court costs & legal fees after they win this nonsense, and I hope the lawyers that advised this woman to sue Porsche get disbarred for wasting the courts time.
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post May 14 2014, 07:35 AM
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Can we counter-sue for murdering one of a limited number of CGT's in the world?

And based off what we know about the guy, He'd probably fess up that it was he and his racing driver buddie's fault they crashed, despite that whole not being alive thing. Also as said there were articles mentioning the car was modified and hadn't been driven much or something. Sounds like an open/shut case.
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post May 14 2014, 07:53 AM
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post May 14 2014, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE(Mikey914 @ May 14 2014, 03:11 AM) *
By the way, how did the widow know the speed?


She hired an expert, who looked at the evidence at the scene and came to the conclusion that the car was traveling 55 MPH. The same evidence that the police used to conclude that the car was traveling 90 MPH.

...So which expert will the jury believe?

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post May 14 2014, 04:23 PM
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I remember reading that the CGT's tires were 9 years old.
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post May 14 2014, 05:45 PM
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If you've seen the photos of the car... that was NOT a 55mph crash. Sorry. No ifs, ands, or buts. Anyone with any common sense can see due to the amount of damage that excessive speed was involved.

Of course, we all know that attorneys don't have common sense.
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post May 14 2014, 06:07 PM
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QUOTE(Qarl @ May 14 2014, 07:45 PM) *

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Of course, we all know that attorneys don't have common sense.


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post May 14 2014, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE(Dave_Darling @ May 14 2014, 02:51 PM) *


She hired an expert, who looked at the evidence at the scene and came to the conclusion that the car was traveling 55 MPH. The same evidence that the police used to conclude that the car was traveling 90 MPH.

...So which expert will the jury believe?

--DD


So the expert admits he was driving over the posted speed limit of 45MPH.

In reality, the road and accident site, which is nearly at my office's doorstep, suggests nothing other than high rate of speed....but I'm no expert. I believe the police estimated 90MPH in their investigation.

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