A photo taken before the car crash that killed Princess Diana shows her driver and bodyguard dazzled by a camera flash and Diana looking back at a motorcycle close behind, a lawyer said Tuesday.
But a third blood test on the driver confirmed two earlier tests showing he was legally drunk at the time of the crash, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Attorney Bernard Dartevelle, who represents the family of Diana's boyfriend, said a photo on a roll of film police took from a photographer at the scene of the Aug. 31 crash showed the driver and a bodyguard dazzled by a flash.
Earlier photos on the roll showed the couple getting into a Mercedes, and a later picture showed the crash scene, Dartevelle told The Associated Press.
That would indicate the picture showing the flash was taken somewhere along the 1.8-mile route between the Ritz Hotel, where the ride began, and the tunnel along the Seine River where it ended, killing Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver.
Dartevelle said he had seen the photos and that they are all in police hands. The photos were not made public.
Nine photographers and a press motorcyclist remain suspects for potentially contributing to the crash by chasing Diana's car at high speed. They could be charged for manslaughter or for failing to help the victims, a crime in France.
Dartevelle said one photograph shows the driver "dazzled" by the flash, the bodyguard pulling down his sun visor and Diana turning backward in the rear seat toward the headlight of a motorcycle. The headlight was yellow, like one mentioned by witnesses, he said.
There was no indication exactly when the picture was taken, and it may be difficult to establish whether it was shot in the tunnel or some-where else along the route. The photographers' lawyers have denied they crowded or otherwise hindered the car.
The car's speed at the time of the crash and the driver's high blood alcohol count have both come under scrutiny.
The results of a third blood alcohol test released Tuesday showed the driver, Henri Paul, 41, was legally drunk at the time, according to judicial sources, who spoke on condition of customary anonymity.
They said the latest test showed a result between 1.75 and 1.82 grams per liter of blood. The first test was 1.75; the second was 1.82. The legal limit in France is 0.5 grams per liter.
The French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday quoted French investigators as saying the accident was probably caused "by alcohol and excessive speed."
But Dartevelle disputed that.
"A (car) driver, who is maybe a photographer, and a motorcyclist, also perhaps a photographer, are very directly implicated in this accident," he said.
Investigators nonetheless focused their investigation on the physical aspects of the crash Tuesday, walking and driving the tunnel where the wreck occurred.
Police blocked off the tunnel at the Pont de l'Alma bridge, forcing mid-morning traffic to take alternate routes, as the investigative team - among them members of the elite "Brigade Criminelle" - inspected the site of the crash.
The team, headed by investigative judges Herve Stephan and Marie-Christine Devidal, spent about 45 minutes examining the site before it was reopened.
The two judges paused in front of the pillar that the car hit, occasionally consulting a chart in their hands.