I was watching the BBC news today and they were talking about a witness to Diana's death. There's a considerable amount of conspiracy theory going around at present; some of which as some merit and some of which that is completely ridiculous.

However, something I picked up on today was a report made by Olivier Partouche to the inquest into her death. On the BBC news (but not in this print version) it was alleged that Mr Partouche heard the Mercedes revving it's engine.

But here's the thing. Diana's car was a Mercedes Benz S280 and, as with all S class Mercedes, was in fact AUTOMATIC. Which means that Henri Paul must have taken the car out of Drive and moved into Neutral in order to rev the engine, presumably loosing speed. This puts the car into what used to be termed "uncontrollable". Because you can't accelerate.

Henri then put the car back in Drive in time for the fateful crash.

Conspiracy theory aside.

Does that make sense to anyone?

Tags: diana, mercedes, s280