Our thoughts are with Paul Walker’s family and with The Fast and The Furious cast and crew at this difficult time,” Al Kaabi said. Paul Walker was well known for his role in the famous The Fast and the Furious franchise and we had been looking forward to welcoming him to Abu Dhabi next month for filming of The Fast and the Furious 7. “We are very sad to learn that actor Paul Walker has died tragically after an accident while attending a charity event for his organisation Reach Out Worldwide. Noura Al Kaabi, chief executive of Abu Dhabi’s twofour54, the local production partner for Fast & Furious 7 said on Sunday it was too soon to comment how Walker’s death would impact the filming schedule. He also starred in the suspense drama, Hours, which is set for release this month. Walker was working on Fast & Furious 7 at the time of his death. He was described as an “experienced driver”, but reportedly lost control of the vehicle and collided with a street light, and then a tree. “We tried, we tried,” Antonio Holmes told the Santa Clarita Signal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Ī US radio station KHTS reports that Roger Rodas, the CEO of Walker’s company Always Evolving, was the driver and the car’s owner. One of Walker’s friends told a local newspaper they “went through fire extinguishers” in a futile bid to fight the blaze.

Two people who were found in the car were pronounced dead at the scene. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that deputies found a car engulfed in flames when they responded to a report of a collision in the community of Valencia. are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news,” the statement said. Walker died on Saturday afternoon, Ame Van Iden told The Associated Press.Ī statement on the actor’s Facebook page said he was a passenger in a friend’s car, and that Walker was in the area to attend a charity event for his organisation Reach Out Worldwide to raise funds for typhoon-hit Phillipines.

Paul Walker, the star of the Fast & Furious movie series, who was due to film parts of its latest episode in Abu Dhabi in January, died on Saturday in a car crash that killed one other person north of Los Angeles, his publicist said.

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