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Diana's car was going 60 miles per hour
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
LONDON, January 13: The Mercedes in which Diana, Princess of Wales was travelling before her death, was moving at half the 120 miles per hour (192 kilometers per hour) that has been widely accepted, a leading British accident investigator will claim in a British television documentary today.``Newspapers have talked of speeds of 120 miles per hour but the damage tells a very different story,'' says Murray Mackay, professor of transport safety at the University of Birmingham. ``It suggests an impact with the pillar of about 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour),'' he says. Mackay said all four occupants of the car would have survived if crash barriers had been fitted in the Paris tunnel where the accident occurred. Mackay studied material from the French police and visited the road tunnel where the accident occurred. The programme included a computer simulation of the accident.
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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