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SEPTEMBER 22, 1997 SPECIAL REPORT: PRINCESS DIANA, 1961-1997 THE CRASH: 2ND CAR THEORY Evidence continues to mount that the Mercedes transporting Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed may have been involved in a collision with a second vehicle before crashing into a pillar in a Paris tunnel. London's Sunday Times reports a new witness -- Gary Hunter, an English lawyer who was celebrating his wife's birthday in Paris -- has stepped forward claiming to have seen a small black car (possibly a Fiat Uno) speeding away from the tunnel moments after the Aug. 31 crash. The newspaper said experts are cautious about the second car theory, saying a small car hit by the heavy Mercedes at high speed would also have crashed. Meanwhile, the only survivor of the fatal accident, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, told a French judge Friday he doesn't remember the circumstances of the crash, but said driver Henri Paul "seemed fine" when he got behind the wheel, a judicial source said. (Paul was finally buried in Lorient, France, Saturday.) CHARLES SHARES HIS GRIEF In an unusually candid display of his emotions, an uncharacteristically vulnerable-looking Prince Charles told the British people that he will always feel the loss of Princess Diana and thanked them for their support. Friday's comments marked the first time Charles has spoken publicly about his former wife's death. Addressing a sympathetic crowd in Manchester, England, Charles said "how particularly moved and enormously comforted my children and I were -- and indeed still are -- by the public response to Diana's death. It has been really quite remarkable and indeed in many ways overwhelming ... I can't tell you how enormously grateful and touched both the boys and myself are." |
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