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Woman injured in car crash involving Prince Philip wants him charged if he's found to be at fault

January 22, 2019

The woman who broke her wrist in a car crash involving Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, wants him charged if he is found to be at fault.

Emma Fairweather told the Sunday Mirror that she had not received an apology and revealed her "pain, shock and upset" over the crash on Friday morning (NZT).

Ms Fairweather was a passenger in the car her friend was driving when the crash occured near the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England. The friend’s nine-month-old baby was also in the car.

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror Ms Fairweather described the crash as being "in slow motion" and said she "couldn’t stop screaming" as the 97-year-old’s Land Rover smashed into her friend’s Kia.

Last week, the mum-of-two said she hadn't heard anything from Buckingham Palace despite officials saying contact had been made and "well wishes exchanged", she told the Sunday Mirror.

The Duke was reported to have said he had been dazzled by the sun, but Ms Fairweather told the publication she recalled it being cloudy.

"I’m lucky to be alive and he hasn’t even said sorry," she told the Sunday Mirror. "It has been such a traumatic and painful time and I would have expected more of the Royal Family.

"It could have been so much worse. Prince Philip apparently said to a witness that it was the sun that dazzled him but I can’t see how that could be true when it was overcast."

He should "absolutely" be prosecuted if found to be at fault, Ms Fairweather told ITV’s This Morning.

"There needs to be a decision as to whether Prince Philip and I are from the same walk of life here or not," she said. "We either both receive the same treatment or we don’t.

"I just feel that his experience probably hasn’t been the same as mine."

Ms Fairweather later told media she had received a message from one of the Queen's ladies in waiting.

"She left me a voicemail that was just an hour or two before my interview with the papers became known ... to say that the Queen wished me well, and that she would like to call me back but she was going out for the evening."

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