Today in History: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in car crash

I still miss Diana. She's been dead for 27 years.

I just had just gotten back from a vacation and turned on CNN to unpack and there was the wreckage. They hadn’t pronounced her dead yet. It was shocking and it felt weird as we were the same age.

Flowers forever

Goodbye, Norma Jean…I mean England’s Rose.

Diana forever.

Drunk driver, no seatbelt - happens every day and was completely avoidable.

It was the first day of school and we kiddies were all discussing it.

R6. Yes, it was a drunk driver an no seatbelts, but it doesn't make it any less tragic. And, the paparazzi were chasing Diana, and the driver probably would not have been driving at a high speed if the driver had not been trying to escape them.

Same thing almost happen to ME TOO!!!! I didn’t die, but I was also BLACK when it happened so that basically equals to EXACTLY what happen to her.

R8 There no other cars involved right? Weird crash. It’s rare you have a crash in a tunnel with no other cars involved. Driver was very familiar with the tunnel. Probably murdered.

R10. It's an older tunnel. The dividing posts inside the tunnel are exposed rather than having a dividing island in the center of the tunnel which are now built to avoid smashing into the posts and causing head-on collisions.

I was walking through Times Square from my bartending job when the screens were a lit up with the coverage. There was a group of tourists gathered close by and they were very upset. I watched the chyron scrolls with them for awhile and tried to be reassuring that she was probably going to be fine, maybe just some rehabilitation. I hugged a few of them and went home, crashed. I woke up around noon and saw she had died. I really never cared much about the royals but I was sad for the people she meant something to.

One of the saddest days ever.

Something so simple as not wearing a seat belt. It's a great shame.

The gay-gasp heard around the world.

Loved her. Still do.

I was in a pizza joint and "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt came on the jukebox. A minute later the big TV sitting on the wall shelf (no flat screens those days kids) had the runner that she was in an accident. The next day, hearing she was dead, I started thinking of that song playing at that time...it was then I realized I could communicate with the dead...

The scream