Vehicular homicide

A Canterbury man was five times over the drink driving limit travelling about 200km/h in a suburban street when a fiery car smash killed him, a coroner has found.

Timothy Joshua (TJ) Walker died at the scene after his Ford Falcon car failed to take a slight bend, flipped, smashed into a brick wall and caught fire in Hampstead, Ashburton, at 3am on May 19, 2018.

The 24-year-old electrician was not wearing a seatbelt. 

He was five times over the legal limit. He was driving at four times the speed limit, and he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

If it weren’t for the fact he killed himself, he would have been eligible for being charged with vehicular homicide. His actions were almost guaranteed to kill.