Witness of Diana's fatal crash speaks after 20 years

The UK's Mirror: Lawyer who saw Diana's death crash breaks 20-year silence to claim "other forces" were behind accident

Stanlee Culbreath is speaking out for the first time in two decades to question whether the Princess of Wales could have lived if French emergency services had acted faster

The car in which Princess Diana suffered fatal injuries in is removed from the tunnel where it wrecked
in 1997. Crash witness Stanlee Culbreath says that the car was mainly intact after it crashed. 

A lot of what he says was talked about at the time - namely why it took so long for rescue crews to get there, why they waited so long to evacuate Diana once they arrived, why they later said they had to "stabilize" her before taking her to hospital, when in the US, every ambulance crew knows that there is no better treatment for a crash victim than immediate evacuation to an ER.

Mr Culbreath said he was also sceptical about the delay in getting Diana out of the wreckage and claimed the door on her side could have been opened. He said: “I thought the car was in a condition where you could open the door.

“I didn’t feel there was enough damage to the car that you couldn’t open the back door – and the front door was already open.

“So why couldn’t you go through that door?

“When the car eventually came out of the tunnel on a lorry it was as big as a pancake, but when I saw it, one side wasn’t. It was the side the Princess was on. I later learned the ‘jaws of life’ were used. Why didn’t they just open the door.

“She wasn’t dead, she was talking.”

 Even stipulating that Culbreath's account is accurate, there will never be another inquiry. Mysteries of Diana's death will always remain so.