Witnesses Confirm Car In Death Of Princess Di

Two witnesses saw a white Fiat Uno swerving across the road immediately after the car crash that killed Princess Diana and two others, police sources said Wednesday, four months to the day after the tragedy here.

Until now, it had been thought that only forensic evidence linked a second car to the accident in a highway tunnel along the Seine River. Investigators found traces of paint on the side of the Mercedes S 280 sedan that Diana was traveling in that were later determined to have come from a Fiat Uno. They also found fragments. Officials confirmed the account but pointed out that the witnesses did not see the accident itself. “There are no direct witnesses,” an official said.

The Fiat passed the witnesses’ car and swerved in front of it so close that the driver had to honk his horn, the newspaper said.

The car’s driver, a brown-haired man in his 40s, kept looking behind him, the witnesses said. There was a large dog in the back seat.

The witnesses were not aware of the accident behind them in the tunnel and drove on.

Despite evidence of a second car interfering with the Mercedes, police still lean toward Henri Paul, the driver, as the primary cause of the accident. Paul, unexpectedly called back to work that night to help Diana and Fayed elude waiting photographers, had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood as well as traces of an antidepressant and a drug prescribed in combination with it to treat alcoholism.

Nine photographers and a motorcycle driver have been placed under investigation for involuntary homicide and failing to assist the victims of an accident; all have denied involvement.