According to the testimony of a first responder to the scene of the car crash that ultimately ended in the death of the ex Princess of Wales, Diana, and her boyfriend, Dodi al Fayed, Diana was still alive after the crash.
Diana's last words, or at least the last words she spoke at the crash were something along the lines of "oh my God" which of course, given the nature of what had just happened, are not surprising. I believe that is about what I would have expected, something along those lines anyway.
The investigation continues, and perhaps there will be more last words when the jury hears from the doctors and others who treated the late princess at the hospital. Apparently the French have an ambulance style that involves treating a person at the scene first, then transporting them to hospital. That is different from other places where the ambulance service gets the victim into the ambulance as quickly as possible and transports you to hospital.
There is some speculation that if the ambulance had of just grabbed Diana and raced to the hospital she might have been saved, but that is only speculation. That is assuming that the hospital would have been able to diagnose the extent of her injuries quickly and go to work on her immediately.
I don't think the handling of the response to the accident is really at issue anyway. This investigation is more about proving whether or not anyone, specifically Prince Phillip, was involved in causing her death. Of course, all of the crash information is important, particularly as the judge and jury try to establish what exactly happened in that tunnel in Paris.
The jury has also heard what amounts to unsubstantiated testimony from a person who is writing a book who claims that something was planned to happen in that tunnel. Precisely what that was remains to be seen.
I still think it is almost impossible to imagine that someone had planned a car accident to kill her, or anyone for that matter. There are other ways that it could have been done that would have been more...well...definitive. A car accident is a crap shoot at best, and there are no guarantees about what would happen. Claiming a conspiracy is pretty hard to believe. For example, what if the Princess had been wearing a seatbelt? She may have survived as did Trevor Reese Jones the bodyguard, who was the only one in the vehicle wearing one apparently. If this was a planned event, did the conspirators know that the Princess didn't wear a seatbelt? I suppose if that was something she never did, then it's possible to assume she wouldn't have been wearing one on the night of her death.
Were the seatbelts operational in the backseat of the car she was in? I suppose a car that transports someone like Diana would be in pretty good working order, so it's likely they were working.
Mystery and things that could be thrown in to muddle things seems to haunt every piece of this investigation. Now there is a writer who claims to have proof of this being more than an accident, but somehow he isn't telling what he knows, or he has since died, I am not sure which. See...even I get confused about this stuff. Sometimes allegations like that can serve no purpose than to distract from what really happened as the investigation goes down the wrong roads following information that may not be much good. But much time gets wasted, memories fade and people disappear, making it harder to follow up on anything.
This is certainly turning into a mystery, one that may never be fully understood, like many mysteries before it. If Diana's death wasn't set up, there will always be those who believe it was, right to the bitter end. I have always found that in even the most elaborate lie, there is always some truth, the hard part is figuring out the truth from the fiction.
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