The Duke of Edinburgh will not face prosecution over his road crash near the Sandringham estate, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.<\/p>\n
The 97-year-old voluntarily gave up his driving licence on Saturday after his\u00a0Land Rover Freelander collided with another vehicle<\/a>\u00a0in Norfolk last month.\u00a0\u00a0He later apologised to the occupants of the other car – two women and a baby.<\/p>\n The CPS says it decided that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute the duke.<\/p>\n Chris Long, Chief Crown Prosecutor from CPS East of England, said: “We took into account all of the circumstances in this case, including the level of culpability, the age of the driver and the surrender of the driving licence.”<\/p>\n The duke escaped injury after his vehicle landed on its side following the collision with a Kia on 17 January on the A149 near the Queen’s country estate.\u00a0\u00a0Two days later Norfolk Police gave him “suitable words of advice” after\u00a0he was pictured driving without a seat belt.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0He wrote to one of the passengers in the Kia – Emma Fairweather, who broke her wrist in the accident.\u00a0\u00a0In the letter, dated 21 January and\u00a0reproduced by the Sunday Mirror<\/a>, the duke acknowledged the “very distressing experience”.<\/p>\n “I would like you to know how very sorry I am for my part in the accident,” he wrote, on Sandringham House headed paper.<\/p>\n “The sun was shining low over the main road. In normal conditions I would have no difficulty in seeing traffic coming… but I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences.”<\/p>\n Ms Fairweather had previously criticised the duke for a lack of communication following the crash.<\/p>\n Source\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-47236607<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n