The firefighter who initially resuscitated Princess Diana after her 1997 Paris car crash was certain she would live through it. Gourmelon was unaware that he was treating the so-called "People's Princess" when he arrived at the scene of the accident in a Paris tunnel. He said she had a slight injury to her right shoulder but saw no other significant wounds or blood on her. As far as I knew when she was in the ambulance she was alive and I expected her to live," he added. Diana, famously eulogized as “the most hunted person of the modern age," suffered cardiac arrest when she was placed on a stretcher.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 31, 2017 18:01 UTC