Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh’s police escort motorbike crash victim ‘thrown 40ft into air’
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh’s police escort motorbike crash victim is “lucky to be alive” after being “thrown 40ft” into the air. The woman in her 80s is still fighting for life in hospital after the royal’s protection vehicle was involved in a collision with the pensioner at Earl's Court in west London on Wednesday (10.05.23) afternoon. Onlookers have now described the moment she was struck as she crossed a “nightmare” street at the junction of the Cromwell and Warwick roads. Retired antiques dealer Martin Hennessy, 62, told the Daily Mirror: “She’s lucky to be alive at all. The road is a ni...