A Legal Battle: "Porsche Girl" + Photos Gone Viral
Nikki Catsouras March 4 1988 - October 31, 2006 Nikki was a high school senior from California who loved photography. Ironically, it was photos that memorialized her forever (and made her posthumously known in pop culture as "Porsche Girl"). On Halloween afternoon in 2006, Nikki took her father's Porsche (without permission and without any experience driving it) after an argument over her smoking in the house. This was the Porsche 911 Carerra that could go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. She was last seen speeding down the highway going 100 mph when she clipped a vehicle sending her over the median crashing into an unmanned toll booth, nearly decapitating her. You can just imagine the grisly scene of this accident. Compounding the tragedy of that day, authorities prevented the family from seeing Nikki's remains stating that viewing her body would be too traumatizing and that she was too unrecognizable. The California Highway Patrol inves...