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Princess Diana inquest hears of mystery dark car
Hahah ... well, well. Conspiracy or not, Princess Diana's death still has some mystery left to it:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,2359...098-401,00.html
Princess Diana inquest hears of mystery dark car
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THE car carrying Diana, princess of Wales, and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed may have bumped into another large, dark-coloured car shortly before crashing, the inquest into their deaths heard overnight.
Witness accounts previously have talked about a white Fiat Uno or a similar small vehicle, but Jean-Claude Catheline and his wife Annick said they saw two dark cars travelling at speed side-by-side going into the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris.
Another witness meanwhile said he saw a "major white flash" in the tunnel just before the crash occurred there on the night of August 30, 1997, before seeing Diana's car "going from left to right to left again".
The Cathelines told how, as they walked on an embankment near the tunnel, they heard a collision followed moments later by the sound of tyres screeching and then a crash.
"As soon as the car disappeared from our view we heard what sounded like the bodywork bumping, I think that this noise was before the car entered the tunnel," he told the inquest by video link from Paris.
Citing from his statement to police, a lawyer said Mr Catheline then almost immediately heard "a second noise, very, very loud, quite different from the first: it was a dull noise and followed by a second, identical noise".
"I heard the tyres screeching on the road," said the Frenchman, who was returning with his wife to their car after visiting the nearby Eiffel Tower.
His wife told how, after seeing the two cars together going into the tunnel, "we heard noises like two cars bumping each other".
Another witness, Francois Levistre, told of seeing a white flash in his rearview mirror as he went through the tunnel ahead of Diana's Mercedes.
Also speaking by video-link from Paris, he told how Diana's car was overtaken by a motorbike when he saw the flash, like the light from a police radar.
"I realised there was this major white flash of the motorbike in front of the Mercedes, in front of the car," he said.
"I was nearly at the exit of the tunnel and I realised that because I heard the noise of the motorbike within the tunnel ... I just wondered what happened because the light was like you were caught by the police in a radar."
Mr Levistre also described how Diana's car veered across the road.
"When I saw the light, I looked into the mirror... I saw the car going from left to right to left again to get within the pillar," he said, speaking through a translator.
Diana, ex-wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles, her Egyptian boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul were killed in a high-speed car crash in the Pont d'Alma tunnel.
Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of London's upscale Harrods department store, believes they were killed in a plot hatched by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and the British security services.
The plot was conceived because Diana, 36, was carrying Fayed's unborn child and the royal family did not want her to marry a Muslim, Mr Al-Fayed alleges.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/437576.stm
Mystery car behind fatal crash
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One abiding mystery remains after a meticulous, two-year investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - where is the white Fiat Uno that may have led to the fatal crash?
French Judge Herve Stephan concluded his country's most detailed road accident investigation by blaming chauffeur Henri Paul for the death of Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed.
The pack of press photographers following on motorbikes were not to blame - but a humble Uno remained a key element in an accident that plunged the world into mourning.
Several witness statements spoke of screeching brakes and a minor impact before the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi hurtled into a concrete pillar in the Alma underpass in Paris.
Exhaustive search
A vital clue was lying amid the tangled wreckage.
Detailed forensic tests established beyond doubt that traces of white paint on the Mercedes were from a white Fiat Uno.
It became the most wanted car in France, but the trail led nowhere.
Endless sifting through paperwork and computer records of cars and cars owners failed to find the single person perhaps able to reveal the precise detail of events leading up to the crash.
Hope abandoned
Theories abounded - the car contained more photographers lying in wait or the driver was too frightened to come forward after witnessing the death of arguably the most famous woman in the world.
Now police in Paris have abandoned any hope of finding the car, but Judge Stephan lists it explicitly as one of the contributory causes of the crash.
Thousands of car accidents happen every year on the Paris road network and the road under the Alma bridge is notorious.
It is easy to build up speed on the dual carriageway in the dead of night, with the road curving to the left with a camber that could easily ease the unwary towards the tunnel wall.
But, the crash report concludes, it was not the lay-out of the road that led to the screeching of brakes and the sickening impact under the streets of Paris.
It was a Fiat Uno and Mr Paul's desperate efforts to avoid it as Diana and Dodi sat, without seatbelts, in the back of the speeding Mercedes.
Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the only survivor from the crash, suffered serious injuries and cannot recall the circumstances immediately before the accident.
There may be only one person who can. But their whereabouts look set to remain a mystery for all time.
In my defence, I'd like to remind you guys that my Fiat Uno is red!
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| Originally posted by Lira In my defence, I'd like to remind you guys that my Fiat Uno is red! |
News just in:
Princess Diana had been taking drugs the night of the accident - speed then smack
More like that here: http://www.harryc.com/jokes03-diana.htm
And I'm English so I have the right before anyone starts moaning, I had to give up a whole day of TV when this happened. It was almost like an audience with Stalin when no-one dared stop clapping first, so they would just clap for hours - none of the TV stations wanted to be outdone by the others by going back to regular programmes so I was stuck with it all fucking day!
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| Originally posted by George Smiley And I'm English so I have the right before anyone starts moaning, I had to give up a whole day of TV when this happened. It was almost like an audience with Stalin when no-one dared stop clapping first, so they would just clap for hours - none of the TV stations wanted to be outdone by the others by going back to regular programmes so I was stuck with it all fucking day! |
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| Originally posted by Marc Summers hahaha, oh wow! I only know one British person IRL, and I've never asked this. I've heard the majority UK takes Diana's death seriously, and still to this day get EXTREMELY offended if someone jokes about it. Is this true? |
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| Originally posted by George Smiley And I'm English so I have the right before anyone starts moaning, I had to give up a whole day of TV when this happened. It was almost like an audience with Stalin when no-one dared stop clapping first, so they would just clap for hours - none of the TV stations wanted to be outdone by the others by going back to regular programmes so I was stuck with it all fucking day! |
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