Driver in Paris tunnel 'had to swerve'

A driver had to swerve to avoid a car travelling slowly into a Paris tunnel seconds before the crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, her inquest heard today.

David Laurent was taking his fiancée and her family on a late-night sightseeing tour when they passed through the Pont de l'Alma tunnel on their way to see the Eiffel Tower in the early hours of August 31, 1997.