Original Diana car failed to start, documents reveal

THE death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash happened after the vehicle she was meant to be travelling in failed to start, according to official documents released yesterday.

Wed, 16 Mar, 2005 - 00:00
John-Paul Ford Rojas

Instead she got into a nearby Mercedes driven by chauffeur Henri Paul, who, tests later revealed, had been three times over the legal alcohol limit.

Diana, 36, and her 42-year-old lover Dodi Al Fayed were killed along with Paul when they crashed in a Paris underpass in August 1997.

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