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18th January 2019
07:35am GMT
"It was frightening to see," Roy Warne, an eyewitness, told The Sun. He said that Philip was pulled from the crash conscious but "very, very shocked and shaken." Roy was first on the scene and went to help free the prince from his car. "I looked down and had the Prince’s blood on my hands," he said. "All I could think is, thank goodness there wasn’t more." He said he later heard Philip tell police that he had been "dazzled by the sun" before the collision. In a statement yesterday evening, the palace confirmed that the royal hadn't been injured in the crash.Prince Philip, 97, in auto crash driving self https://t.co/LexjnpWgdK pic.twitter.com/gRjgvbmFRR
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