Paul Walker’s 17-year-old daughter Meadow Walker has reached a $10.1 USD million settlement with the estate of the man driving the car that crashed and killed them both in 2013, reports Reuters.
The Fast and the Furious actor was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by Roger Rodas when the car, reportedly going at speeds of 150kms per hour, smashed into trees and a utility pole in Santa Clarita, northwest of Los Angeles.
The settlement was reportedly reached in November 2014 but went unnoticed as it was filed under ‘Meadow W.’ on the public record, says gossip site TMZ.
Meadow is the only child and sole heir to her father’s estate and according to her attorney, Jeff Milam, the funds will go into a trust for the teen.
Walker’s death at age 40 threw led production of film “Furious 7,” into a tailspin – but through computer effects and using his brother as a double the movie was completed and released in 2015.
The last in the racing car franchise grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide, making it among the highest-earning films of all time.
According to reports Milam is still also suing Porsche on behalf of his client – they claim that Walker survived the initial crash but “burned to death because of Porsche’s defective design” – more specifically his seat belt.
But the car’s German manufactures maintains that the actor’s death was caused by “reckless driving and excessive speed.”
After a four-month long investigation the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department
found no drugs or alcohol in either driver or passenger and found the crash was the result of excessive speed, not mechanical failure.
