September 4, 2016

Today marks the 19th anniversary of the deadly Paris car crash that claimed the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Diana died from serious injuries in the early hours of August 31, 1997 as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash. Diana was riding in the rear seat of a Mercedes along with her boyfriend, Dodi Alf Fayed, when it struck a support column inside a tunnel in Paris as they were traveling from the Ritz Hotel to Al Fayed's apartment. Although the media blamed the paparazzi following the car, a French judicial investigation found that the crash was caused by Henri Paul, who lost control of the car at high speed while drunk. The investigation concluded that the photographers were not near the Mercedes when it crashed.