Walker's publicist Ame バン Iden confirmed his death, but 発言しました she could not elaborate beyond statements 投稿されました on Walker's official Twitter and フェイスブック accounts.
Walker was a passenger in a friend's 2005 Porsche Carrera GT and both were attending a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, in the community of Valencia in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles north of Hollywood.
The website for the charity 発言しました the Saturday event was intended to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Speed was a factor in the crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said.
The wreck took place about 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), about 300 yards from the office park where the event was held. The speed there is 45 mph.
Up and down the road near the crash site were burned rubber and doughnut marks as though someone smoked their tires in figure 8 patterns.
'I don't know if the marks in the road are related to the crash,' 発言しました Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Brian Allen.
Deputies arrived at the scene to find a vehicle on fire, he said
Once 火災, 火 crews put the flames out, they found two occupants, both of whom were pronounced dead at the scene.
Saturday evening, all that remained was the burnt mangled metal of the red car and a light pole that had been knocked down.
The county coroner 発言しました that, 与えられた the condition of the bodies, it will take some time to definitively identify them.
He is survived によって his 15-year-old daughter, Meadow."
- 記事 source, によって CNN
