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.

Original Diana car failed to start, documents reveal
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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