Prince Philip was involved in a car crash on Thursday near
Sandringham but sustained no life-threatening injuries.
The 97-year-old Duke was driving his Land Rover on a country
road near Sandringham, Norfolk, when he says he was 'dazzled by the sun' and he
collided with a Kia carrying two women and a 10-month-old baby. His Land Rover
rolled over and he had to be pulled out through the sunroof.
Roy Warne, 75, was a witness to the crash and first on the
scene. He narrated what happened immediately after the crash.
He described seeing the Land Rover roll across the A149
"like a somersault", adding "it was turning on its side over and
over." Roy, who was travelling with his wife Victoria at the time, stopped
his car and rushed to help, eventually pulling the Duke from his seat after
smashing through the windscreen and sunroof.
The car Prince Philip collided with had two women and a
10-month-old baby in it as it emerges the Duke of Edinburgh was bleeding at the
scene
He also claimed he had the Duke's blood on his hands while
he helped him out.
He said:
I looked down and had the Prince’s blood on my hands. All I
could think is, thank goodness there wasn’t more.
Asked what the Duke first said when he was freed, he
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."
Barrister Roy said the Duke's first words to him while he
lay trapped were: "My legs, where should I put my legs?".
Roy said he placed his hands under Prince Philip's armpits
and gently pulled him from the smashed car. He said that when The Duke of Edinburgh stood up, his first thoughts were
for others involved in the crash.
He added:
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.
He was disorientated and humbled. I believe he was very
sorry about what had happened.
He was very shaken and then he went and asked if everyone
else was alright.
Roy said that when he came upon the scene of the accident,
he first attended to the passengers and baby in the blue Kia because he thought
it was going to burst into flames when he saw smoke rising from it.
The car Prince Philip collided with had two women and a
10-month-old baby in it as it emerges the Duke of Edinburgh was bleeding at the
scene
He said he could hear a baby screaming in the back of the
car and that his mother was "understandably hysterical".
Roy told Radio 4 Today:
The person in the car behind me also stopped and a passenger
from that car actually took the baby in his arms after we had freed it from the
baby harness.
One of them had a broken arm. They were very shaken. One of
them was the mother of the child and she was quite upset.
I think there's no doubt that it was hit (by the duke's
car). That's my recollection.
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.
Two women required hospital treatment after the crash, with
one suspected of suffering a broken arm.
