A motorist who witnessed the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, told Monday of seeing a white flash in his rear view mirror as he went through the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris ahead of Diana's Mercedes, media reports said Tuesday.
Speaking by video-link from Paris, Francois Levistre told how Diana's car was overtaken by a motorbike when he saw the flash, like the light from a police radar.
"I realised there was this major white flash of the motorbike in front of the Mercedes, in front of the car," he said.
But Jean-Claude Catheline and his wife Annick said they saw two dark cars travelling at speed side-by-side going into the death tunnel.
The Cathelines told how, as they walked on an embankment near the tunnel, they heard a collision followed moments later by the sound of tyres screeching and then a crash.
"As soon as the car disappeared from our view we heard what sounded like the bodywork bumping, I think that this noise was before the car entered the tunnel," Jean-Claude told the inquest also by video link from Paris.
His wife told how, after seeing the two cars together going into the tunnel, "we heard noises like two cars bumping each other."
Diana, ex-wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles, her Egyptian boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul were killed in a high-speed car crash in the tunnel.
Fayed's father Mohamed Al-Fayed, the tycoon owner of London's upscale Harrods department store, believes they were killed in a plot hatched by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and the British security services.
The plot was conceived because Diana, 36, was carrying Fayed's unborn child and the royal family did not want her to marry a Muslim, Al-Fayed alleged.
Source: Xinhua/agencies
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