Should he still be driving at 97?

I think from the RF have handled this badly. The Duke should have said he was sorry, not for causing the crash as that's subject to a police investigation but sorry that she's been injured and traumatized.

I'm surprised that at least a bouquet of flowers and hand-written note wishing them well wasn't sent within hours.

I expect the woman was aggrieved that the very next day he took delivery of a replacement car and was out on a public road, with no seatbelt, as though nothing had happened!

I think his most ardent supporters would think this has been miss-handled.

River I think he did go up and speak to them at the time. As someone else has pointed out if he had sent flowers, a note, replaced the car or whatever people would have said he was trying to buy her off. He really can't please people whatever he does.

I don't see why she should be "aggrieved that the very next day he took delivery of a replacement car" it shouldn't affect her. As DS said to me, if he had an accident he would instantly borrow one of our cars. Others have said the insurance company would provide a temporary car.

I hope she is talking to her insurers about what she should do. It must be horrible to have such an accident but these things happen and she is no worse off than if it had been me who caused it.

The young mum in the car hasn't gone public has she?

I have just listened to the woman’s interview on ‘This Morning’. Seems she has other injuries but the hospital did not check them !

The only contact she has had with her friend who was driving is an email from the husband giving insurance details she had asked for .

She also complained she wasn’t given police protection !

Think we will hear much more from this person

Police protection?! Oh dear god she is really going for it

She may well need police protection now. I haven't looked and have no plans to but I bet social media is going demented! She will certainly need counselling after all this.

It will probably cause a fallout between the two ladies in the car I imagine

Presumably if she has whiplash, ptsd, an as-yet-undiagnosed injury which may manifest itself soon then she can go through the insurance company and claim the same as anyone else would.

Presumably if she has whiplash, ptsd, an as-yet-undiagnosed injury which may manifest itself soon then she can go through the insurance company and claim the same as anyone else would.

That was why my own case took 6 years to go to court.

That baby may have an injury as yet undiagnosed because the poor little mite will have been very badly jolted.

Just imagine all the phone calls she will be getting, media, ambulance chasers, those people who ask you about your accident. That will be enough to give her PTSE.

I presume the hospital checked the baby over thoroughly. Apparently he was screaming which is a good sign, although when we had a motorway crash our littlest one slept through it all.

I think they've done everything by the book so far. Can't fault it really. Sentiment doesn't usually come into these things.

He's probably horrified about the baby but relieved there was no injury to him. (Thank the Lord for baby car seats)

Pity he doesn't make the connection between the baby being strapped in and wearing his own seat belt!!

Sparkle, that’s what I really can’t understand.
Are the RF above the law? The police see both PP and theQ in cars going out on the public roads. Why aren’t they prosecuted?

Well, that's up to him isn't it? (And the police)

But gonegirl if we did it we would be prosecuted.

Yes. And he should be.

If the police have "had a word" with him about no seat belt, will he get another chance if he's photographed without one again?

Can they prosecute from a close up photograph in a newspaper, Were they driving on their estate ?

I thought it was on a public road.I suppose the police themselves would have to catch him at it though.

If the police have "had a word" with him about no seat belt, will he get another chance if he's photographed without one again?

And what about the Queen who has been photographed twice not wearing a seatbelt - once when she was driving herself and once as a passenger?

I have always supported the idea of a slimmed-down RF because I don't like the thought of a president, but really this latest episode and the way the RF are coming across as arrogant and above the law has put me right off (and I don't mean the so-called lack of apology because no one who knows the score is expecting that!) I am very disappointed in them .... and I don't think I'm alone in that.

PP has had countless accidents before, when he was younger and had all his faculties, and it seems he has learnt nothing nor improved his driving skills, and obviously his reactions will be much slower now.

I've always thought he was a belligerent and tactless individual with a very caustic side to him, but now I've added total arrogance and insensitivity to the list.

The police are all over the place when the RF are at Sandringham. I can’t think it would be difficult to catch them.
Did you see all the police cars at the scene? I am amazed that Norfolk could muster as many as that.

To be fair, driving without a seatbelt can only hurt the driver. It's not even as though they would use up NHS funds being treated after an accident.

And that's what the seatbelt law was brought in for. To save the NHS money.

so what you're saying is that its OK for one rule for them and another for the rest of us gonegirl