On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries suffered during an automobile accident in Paris. The accident occurred after she and her companion, Dodi Al Fayed, left the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Pursued by several photographers, the princess' Mercedes entered a tunnel under the Place de l'Alma at high speeds and, apparently struck a pillar--then smashed into a wall. As Princess Diana and her companions lay injured inside the wreckage, the photographers who had pursued her continued to take pictures. Mr. Al Fayed and the chauffeur, Henri Paul, died at the scene, but the princess and her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash and were rushed by ambulance to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. Unfortunately, Trevor Rees-Jones, the only occupant of the car who was wearing a safety belt, would also be the only one to survive. For two hours, surgeons worked on the princess, but in the end they were unable to save her life. Blood tests later showed that the chauffeur was intoxicated at the time of the accident and had also taken prescription drugs. But the accuracy of these blood tests has been hotly disputed by the families of both the chauffeur and Mr. Al Fayed who suggest that the tests were tampered with as they also show enough carbon monoxide in the chauffeur's system to have prevented him from even walking. Further fueling conspiracy theories is the fact that a French investigation two years after the crash concluded that the princess' car had collided with a white Fiat Uno while in the tunnel. The driver of that vehicle has never come forward, nor has the vehicle been found. Approximately 3 million mourners attended Princess Diana's funeral at Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997, and more than one million bouquets were left at her London home.