On 31 August 1997 Diana was killed in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed, whom she was to marry[3] , and their driver Henri Paul. Blood analysis shows that Henri Paul was drunk while driving prior to the accident. Their Mercedes-Benz S280 sedan crashed on the thirteenth pillar of the tunnel. The two-lane tunnel was built without metal barriers between the pillars, so a slight change in vehicle direction could easily result in a head-on collision with the tunnel pillar.
Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was closest to the point of impact and yet the only survivor of the crash. He was the only occupant of the car who was wearing a seatbelt and later claimed that he had no memory of the crash. Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed were killed instantly, and Diana - unbelted in the back seat - slid forward during the impact and "submarined" under the seat in front of her, causing massive internal bleeding. She was transported to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital where, despite lengthy resuscitation attempts, she died at 4am. Her funeral on 6 September 1997 was broadcast and watched by over 1 billion people worldwide.[citation needed]
It was later reported by the BBC that DNA evidence proved the driver of Diana's car was drunk on the night of her fatal crash. [citation needed] The tests confirmed that original postmortem blood samples were from driver Henri Paul, and that he had three times the French legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Conspiracy theorists had claimed that Paul's blood samples were swapped with blood from someone else -- who was drunk -- and contended that the driver had not been drinking on the night Diana died.[9]
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