Caitlyn Jenner denies speeding before fatal crash

TV personality Caitlyn Jenner. Photo / Getty Images

Transgender retired athlete Caitlyn Jenner has opened up about her involvement in a fatal car crash in California earlier this year.

She says she remembers "very little" about the accident, but insists she wasn't speeding.

The reality TV star, who as Bruce Jenner won the decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, was driving an SUV along the Pacific Coast Highway in February when the vehicle slammed into the back of another car.

It caused a pile-up which nudged fellow driver Kim Howe's car into oncoming traffic, resulting in her death.

In their report completed last month, officials suggest Kim Kardashian's stepfather "set off a chain of events" that led to Howe's death by driving at a speed deemed unsafe for road conditions.

Authorities claim Jenner should have been "barely rolling" as the traffic came to a near standstill, and ruled the 65-year-old's actions violated the vehicular manslaughter law.

Los Angeles County prosecutors are still considering whether to charge Jenner with a misdemeanour, but the star believes she did nothing wrong and she is challenging investigators' findings that her speed was a factor in the crash.

In a candid pre-taped interview on US breakfast show Today, Jenner, who was not under the influence at the time of the incident, says she remembers very little about the crash.

"I remember it happening and that's about it.

"I'm in litigation and I can't really talk about ... but a tragedy like this, you'll never get over it. You just learn to live with it the best you possibly can.

"I was under the speed limit, I was going 46 (miles per hour) in a 50 (mile per hour zone) - my air bag didn't even go off. All I needed was probably a half a second of time. I almost got stopped, but couldn't quite get it stopped... I don't think speed was (a factor)..."

If prosecutors decide to proceed with charges against Jenner, she could face up to a year behind bars.

- WENN