Word: uno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheel of the white Fiat Uno that evidently collided with Princess Diana's Mercedes moments before the final, fatal crash...
Since late October, French police have examined nearly 4,000 Fiat Unos in search of a vehicle showing signs of a recent paint job or rear-end repair. That investigation is still proceeding, and it has taken intriguing turns. Sources close to the investigation have told TIME that in November the French police thought they had their man. Debris found at the crash site, paint deposited on the Mercedes and other forensic evidence had led investigators to conclude that there had indeed been a tangential collision with a second car and that the other vehicle was a white Fiat Uno...
...couple, identified only as Francois and Valerie, had entered the riverfront expressway just west of the tunnel where the accident took place. They were immediately passed by an Uno whose driver, described as a brown-haired "European type" in his 40s, behaved "abnormally." He zig-zagged, kept turning around to look behind him and at one point hit the brakes and pulled over to the right, apparently trying to park. His car made a loud roar as if its muffler had been damaged. As Francois and Valerie passed the Fiat and continued on their way, they noticed a large...
Four teams of investigators fanned out through Paris and its suburbs in early November to make systematic checks of white Unos dating from 1983 to 1989. One by one, owners were called into police stations and interrogated about their whereabouts the night of Aug. 30. Their cars were closely inspected. In late November the search came upon a brown-haired man who regularly transported dogs in his car and whose white Fiat Uno had recently been repaired and repainted bright red. The owner was not a stranger to French authorities. The investigative file states that although...
Police believe that whoever was at the wheel of the mysterious white Fiat Uno played a key role in forcing the Mercedes driven by Ritz assistant security chief Henri Paul to spin out of control. At this point, they do not believe the Uno was driven by a photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked...