Just after midnight on August 31, 1997, a limousine carrying Diana, Princess of Wales and her then-paramour, Dodi Al Fayed, collided with a pillar in the Alma Tunnel in central Paris. Mr. Al Fayed and his driver, Henri Paul, were killed instantly. Diana suffered a torn pulmonary and was taken to Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, where she died later of cardiac arrest.
BBC News: "Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. She was taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning where surgeons tried for two hours to save her life but she died at 0300 BST. In a statement Buckingham Palace said the Queen and the Prince of Wales were 'deeply shocked and distressed.'"
CNN: "Britain's Princess Diana died early Sunday at a Paris hospital after suffering massive internal injuries in a high-speed car crash. She was 36. Her companion, Harrod's heir Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur died at the crash scene. Diana, Princess of Wales, died at 4 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest, doctors told a news conference at Paris' Hospital de la Pitie Salpetriere."
BBC News: "The final moments of the princess and her close friend, Dodi Al Fayed, son of Harrods owner Mohamed, have become the focus of constant - and often frenzied - speculation. But many details have now become clear." (Dec. 14, 2006)
Time magazine: "There was little sound for the first two minutes after the crash except for the hoarse wail of the mangled car's horn. The noise emanated weakly from both ends of the tunnel on Paris' Place de l'Alma -- from the east end, which the black Mercedes with the silver trim had entered just moments before, moving at least twice the 35 m.p.h. the local traffic laws allow; and from the west end, where the narrow tunnel opened onto a spectacular view of the left bank of the Seine."
Wikipedia: "On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France , along with her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul. Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the only occupant of the car who survived the accident. Most reports and findings concluded that the cause was a car crash occasioned by a chauffeur who had consumed too much alcohol and had lost control speeding whilst trying to evade press photographers."
