Exclusives | Apr 13, 2022 10:01 PM EDT

Paul Walker's Tragic Death: 'Fast & Furious' Actor Faced Most Shocking Accident in Hollywood

By Alexandria Reeves

Paul Walker's death is often regarded as the most shocking Hollywood death due to several reasons.

In the past years, multiple news outlets have always written Walker's passing at the top of the most tragic and shocking deaths in the entertainment industry. While celebrity deaths are not something expected by anyone, the actor's horrifying last moments still haunt everyone eight years later.

Paul Walker's Death Revisited

Walker had a fruitful stint in the "Fast & Furious" franchise that two days before his untimely death in 2013, he still penned a letter to fans to greet them a Happy Thanksgiving Day.

He made sure that he helped everyone he could as a philanthropist, and he even held a toy drive event for his disaster relief charity on Nov. 20, 2013. Reach Out Worldwide was launched to support the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the 2013 event was dedicated to help the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Unfortunately, he never got the chance to do it all over again.

Later that day's charity event, Walker and his friend Roger Rodas left in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. The pal was driving while the actor was sitting beside him.

After driving a few hundred yards away from the shop, Rodas lost control of the vehicle which was known for being hard to handle. They were traveling at about 100 mph before it hit a curb, a tree, a light post, and another tree. It then burst into flames afterward.

Rodas' young son and the attendees of the charity event immediately rushed to the scene, with Walker's friend Antonio Holmes recalling how it was one of the most horrifying crash scenes in Hollywood.

"It was engulfed in flames. There was nothing. They were trapped. Employees, friends of the shop. We tried. We tried. We went through fire extinguishers," he said, as quoted by Yahoo!

News about Walker's death immediately went viral. A month after his passing, a 15-page report of the autopsy detailed the actor's disastrous last moments.

The coroner said that the "Fast & Furious" actor died due to the "combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries." His body was burned so much that no one could visually identify him. He also sustained severe injuries in his jaw, left arm, and collarbone. A small amount of soot was also detected in his trachea, hinting that he might have taken a breath following the crash.