Diana's car `only doing 60 mph'

London - The Mercedes in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed was travelling at half the 120 m.p.h

London - The Mercedes in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed was travelling at half the 120 m.p.h. that has been widely accepted, a leading British accident investigator said yesterday.

All four occupants of the car would have survived if crash barriers had been fitted in the Paris tunnel where the accident happened, according to Prof Murray Mackay, head of the Birmingham Accident Research Centre and Professor of Transport Safety at the University of Birmingham.

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