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Princess Diana's death an accident: Investigation report debunks conspiracy theories
Mystery solved! Mishap killed Princess Diana.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
December 15, 2006
How did Di die? A British police probe into the tragic death of Princess Diana has
revealed that it was the car crash that killed Diana ad that it was an accident. The findings have put an end to speculations that had churned out theories that the princess was killed.
The British police have said that on the evidence available at this time, there was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of that car.
The 36-year-old Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and chauffeur Henri Paul were killed when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris on August 31, 1997, while the couple was being pursued by photographers. Chauffer Paul’S blood-alcohol level was twice the British legal limit at the time of the crash was driving at twice the local speed limit before the car crashed. The cops have concluded that the car hit the curb just before the 13th pillar of the central reservation in the Alma underpass, at a speed of around 101 km per hour. Adding that nothing in the very rapid sequence of events we have reconstructed supports the allegation of conspiracy to murder, they said "it was a tragic accident.”
The police have also said that the attention of paparazzi earlier in the evening on that fateful day had led Diana and Fayed to change their travel plans later in a short space of time, which did not leave any opportunity for anyone to put a murder plan into action.
The cops have also categorically stated that the inquiry is certain that Diana was not pregnant at the time of her death, and was not engaged or about to become engaged to Fayed. These, incidentally, were the two allegations by those who spread conspiracy theories that the death was a result of murder.
The inquiry, which involved 15 police personnel and is estimated to have cost several million dollars, used cutting-edge computer technology to reconstruct the crash scene and examined the wrecked Mercedes in painstaking detail. The probe officials had also spoken to as many as 300 witnesses, collected 600 exhibits, travelled to Paris to see the site of the crash, and interviewed Diana's former husband, Prince Charles, before coming to the current conclusion.
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