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The crash is part of popular legend now. The 13th pillar in the Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug...
--THE MERCEDES The gendarmes' specialized research unit will hand over its technical report on the Mercedes in late September, and sources close to the investigation indicate that they have found no major problems. That is surprising, because certain items in the dossier, and the analysis of outside experts, point to...
The front air bags, which probably saved bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones' life, may also have provoked the final crash. According to the report of a trauma expert at La Pitie-Salpetriere hospital, the nature of Rees-Jones' facial injuries suggests that the air bags may have inflated with explosive force...
The car may have had other major flaws. The regular chauffeur of the Mercedes, Olivier Lafaye, testified that a persistent warning light on the dashboard indicated a problem with the antilock braking system and the brake linings. The manager of the Etoile rental company, Jean-Francois Musa, told investigators that...
According to chauffeur Lafaye's deposition, Musa also knew that the car was unstable and tended to "skate out at the rear end." Lafaye told the judge that the Mercedes "did not hold the road. You had to know this car to drive it safely, and Henri Paul had never...