- LONDON - An official investigation into the Paris car crash which
killed Britain's Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed has concluded
that no one left alive is to blame, the Sunday Mirror said.
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- The investigation, led by French judge
Herve Stephan, began soon after Diana's death in September 1997 and was
completed last week, the newspaper said.
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- It said it had obtained key segments
of the report despite the strict security that surrounded it.
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- The Sunday Mirror said that according
to those excerpts the only person who could have been held responsible
" the car driver Henri Paul " was dead.
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- "From the overall examination of
the known factors the accident may be due to excess speed, the peculiar
characteristics of the road, the presence of a Fiat Uno at the mouth of
the tunnel and the poor control of the vehicle by the driver,'' the newspaper
quoted the report as saying.
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- The Paris investigators have consistently
blamed the crash on the high speed at which Paul drove the car and the
criminal level of alcohol in his blood at the time of the accident.
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- The Sunday Mirror said manslaughter charges
against photographers and a dispatch rider who pursued the car after it
left the Ritz Hotel, owned by Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed, would be
dropped.
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- Photographers who were first to reach
the crash scene would face only minor charges, the newspaper said, and
the managers of the Ritz Hotel would not be tried for corporate manslaughter.
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- The owners of the limousine hire company
which provided the car would not face any charges for not providing a driver
for the car when it was requested, the Sunday Mirror said.
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- Only Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones,
survived the crash, but he suffered severe injuries.
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