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Princess Diana's Driver Feels Responsible For Her Fatal Car Crash

Aug 11 2017 - 7:30pm

Nearly 20 years after Princess Diana's death, the details surrounding her fatal car crash [1] are just as shocking. As the world tried to come to terms with what happened, including her sons Prince William and Prince Harry [2], her regular driver, Colin Tebbutt, recently revealed just how guilty he felt for not being there [3] the night she died. "Yes, you always do [feel responsible]," Colin told Good Morning Britain during his first live television interview this week. "That's not good to have in the mind." Diana, who was only 36 when she died [4], was traveling with boyfriend Dodi Fayed [5] when the driver of their car, Henri Paul, tried to avoid the paparazzi, lost control of the vehicle, and crashed in a tunnel in Paris. Nearly 11 years after her death, it was revealed that Henri had a blood-alcohol level three times the French legal limit [6] at the time of the crash.

After receiving news of the crash, Colin told Good Morning Britain that he arrived at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital shortly after Diana died. "It's very difficult and emotional to see a person lying in a bed and not in a mortuary," he said. "I went and got some fans to cool the room down. As I turned around, the eyelashes and hair of the princess were moving, caused by the fan, and that just struck me. I had to turn away, think about it, and then grip myself back and get on with what I was doing."


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