Princess Diana Still Moving, Talking When Rescued After Fatal Car Crash; Last Words Revealed

Princess Diana was still conscious and even spoke to the responder who rescued her from the scene, according to a report.

Prince William and Prince Harry's late mother would have turned 60 years old on July 1. Daily Mail revisited the fatal car crash in Paris that resulted in the late Princess of Wales' demise.

According to Dr. Frederic Mailliez, he and his boyfriend were driving home after attending a birthday party when they saw smoke in a tunnel. They slowed down and checked the Mercedes that crashed. Two of the passengers were already dead but the other two, including a young woman, were severely injured but still alive.

"I had a bag valve mask, which I took. Then I went back inside the Mercedes and tried to give assistance to the young woman," he told Daily Mail.

"She was sitting on the floor in the back and I discovered then she was a most beautiful woman and she didn’t have any [serious] injuries to her face. She was not bleeding [then] but she was almost unconscious and was having difficulty breathing. So my goal was to help her breathe more easily."

According to the doctor, Princess Diana still looked fine for the first few minutes. However, the accident was "very high energy" and it was a kind of situation when one would "always suspect severe [internal] injuries."

Mailliez had no idea that the woman he was trying to help at the time was Princess Diana. He did his best to assist her and called the emergency services on his mobile phone.

Fire Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon arrived with two vehicles from the Marlar fire and ambulance station. He identified Trevor Rees-Jones who looked agitated and assisted him. The team also tried to resuscitate Princess Diana’s boyfriend, Dodi Fayed. When the other passengers were out, he stayed with the woman and the latter spoke with him.

"She spoke in English and said, 'Oh my God, what’s happened?'" Gourmelon told the outlet. "I could understand that, so I tried to calm her. I held her hand. Then others took over. This all happens within two or three minutes.’ Physically, he can see little wrong with Diana, ‘apart from her shoulder . . . but you can’t just rely on what you see’."

Doctor Jean-Marc Martino, who was in charge of the ambulance, told Gourmelon that they had to remove Princess Diana from the car and place her on a wooden board and then on a mattress filled with air to stop her from moving around and avoid spinal trauma. However, when they moved her from the board to the mattress her heart stopped.

"So we started giving her heart massage, two of us, and her heart started again almost immediately. From thereon in [her treatment] was all down to the doctors," he added.

Princess Diana's blood pressure started to fall and Martino administered another line of dopamine but feared that the symptom could indicate internal damage. They did everything they needed to do at the scene and immediately sent her way to the hospital.

Gourmelon said in another interview that he thought that Princess Diana would survive. She was moving slightly and was alive. There was no significant injury or blood loss.

"To be honest I thought she would live," the firefighter said. "As far as I knew when she was in the ambulance she was alive and I expected her to live. But I found out later she had died in hospital. It was very upsetting."

Rees-Jones was the lone survivor of the car crash accident. He underwent 10 hours of surgery and couldn't remember most things. In his recollection, all he remembered was them stopping at traffic lights and seeing a motorcycle on the right-hand side of the car. However, he was also not sure about it because "my memory then is of total confusion."

According to Daily Mail, prior to leaving the Ritz Hotel, Princess Diana's car was surrounded by the paparazzi. Rees-Jones looked stressed and Ritz deputy security manager Henri Paul told the photographers before leaving, "Don’t try to follow us; in any case, you won’t catch us."

Paul drove the car and none of them wore seatbelts. The vehicle crashed just a few minutes after they left the hotel.