London, Nov 7 : Princess Diana would have been alive today if she had been wearing the seatbelt at the time of the fatal car crash ten years ago, a police expert has told the inquest into her death.

Senior accident investigator Anthony Read said that he could "almost guarantee" that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed would have survived had they been strapped in and travelling at the speed limit when their Mercedes crashed in Paris's Alma tunnel on Aug 31, 1997.

PC Read, a senior collision investigator for the Metropolitan Police, estimated that Diana and Dodi's black Mercedes was travelling between 60 and 70mph, twice the speed limit, when it crashed into the tunnel wall killing the couple and their driver Henri Paul.

London, Nov 7 : Experts are certain that the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana in Paris 10 years ago collided with a white Fiat Uno before it crashed, the inquest into her death has heard.

Scotland Yard senior collision investigator PC Anthony Read and two other experts concluded that fragments of the smashed rear light of a 1980s Fiat Uno found at the crash scene and traces of white paint on the wreck of the Mercedes showed the incident did take place.

Diana, her lover Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul were all killed when their car hit a pillar of the Pont de l'Alma Underpass in Paris on the morning of August 31, 1997.

Read presented the jury with four bags of debris retrieved from the tunnel within a few hours of the crash.

London, Nov.7 : Hundreds of passengers watched in horror as their British Airways jumbo narrowly avoided a collision with another airliner over France recently.

London, Nov 7 : A Sikh teenager has been sent back from her school for wearing a Kara (steel bracelet), one of the religious symbols which reminds a Sikh of his or her bondage to the Guru.

London, Nov 6  : The ongoing inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed was thrown into chaos on Nov 5, when French paparazzi refused to give evidence.