gazman wrote:

gilarion wrote:

Well, that's his no claims . Wonder if he will be giving 'A Plan' a call . Glad the Duke is OK though.

Her marg a d co dont need or have insurance. I kid you not

Edit actually I could be wrong on this. It might be she doesn't have a licence or need number plates

The Queen passed her test as an Auxiliary Driver in WW2 .. and has been known to drive horse boxes and her 110 all over the various royal estate.
The Duke was also a helicopter pilot and often used to fly the Queens Flight Wessex when he as the chance.

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I was however a little surprised when the news was first released that it wasn't even mentioned if the occupants of the other vehicle were even alive.
I think that is rather wrong

discomog wrote:

FAKE NEWS

If you believe everything you read in the Daily Mail the D of E has just taken delivery of a brand new "Freelander" to replace the one he wrote off yesterday.

Isn't there anyone in the newsroom of the Daily Mail that knows the difference between a FFRR and a Freelander and that production of the Freelander ceased some years ago.

LandRoverAnorak wrote:

Has it been reported who hit who, then? All I can find is reports of the aftermath, with nothing on the cause.

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I was driving home and I saw a car come out from a side road and it rolled and ended up on the other side of the road, and there was a huge collision with another car,” he said.

He said the prince was trapped with his legs in the well of the car. “I asked him to move his left leg and that freed his right leg and then I helped him get out,” Warne said.

“The roof was where the window should have been because it was on its side. I think I helped him out through either the sunroof or the front windscreen, but I’m a bit blurred about that.”

Asked what the prince had said during the rescue, Warne replied: “I can’t remember, but it was nothing rude. He was obviously shaken, and then he went and asked if everyone else was all right.”

Prince Philip was able to stand and walk, but there was “a little blood”, he said, suggesting the prince had been cut, possibly by broken glass.

Warne said of the crash: “I think there’s no doubt that it was hit [by the prince’s car] . That’s my recollection.” I

Of Prince Philip’s vehicle, he said: “I didn’t see it come from the side road. I saw it careering and tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side. It would take a massive force and it had rolled on the other side as well.”