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...Herve Stephan as he walked with a dozen police investigators into the empty, neon-lit Place de l'Alma tunnel. They converged on the spot where, just 30 days earlier, a black Mercedes S-280 had spun out of control and crashed headlong into the tunnel's 13th support pillar, killing Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and their driver, and injuring their bodyguard. Last Monday at 9:20 p.m., a flatbed truck backed slowly into the tunnel bearing the grotesquely gnarled black hulk that has etched itself into the world's collective consciousness as Diana's death car. With...
Meanwhile, a man and woman driving through the tunnel in the opposite, eastbound direction also reported seeing a dark car in front of the Mercedes. There was a sudden screech of brakes. The man heard a "small" impact, then saw the Mercedes skid directly into a support pillar in the middle of the tunnel, leading him to think the car had sideswiped the other vehicle and lost control...
...plastic housing of its right-rearview mirror. This debris was found near a 62-ft.-long skid mark that swerves from the right into the left lane. A short distance beyond that is the beginning of a 105-ft.-long skid mark that leads directly into the 13th pillar. All of which tends to support the theory of an initial collision followed by a loss of control...
...tragic deaths occurred because of the absence of pillar guardrails along the road in the underpass and the failure to fasten seat belts. RICHARD LAINE San Carlos, Calif...
...name, the Core Program should be at the very least a dependable and effective pillar of Harvard College's curriculum. Instead, it is a withering branch that only inspires feelings of disgust...