<p class="title">Britain's Prince Philip has said he is "deeply sorry" about the injury suffered by a woman in a car crash he was involved in over a week ago, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The newspaper published a copy of a letter written by the 97-year-old royal to Emma Fairweather, who broke her wrist when the Kia she was in collided with the prince's Land Rover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I would like you to know how very sorry I am for my part in the accident... I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences," said the letter, signed by Philip in blue pen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The crash, which left the prince's vehicle on its side, happened as he pulled out of a side road onto a busy main road near the royal country residence in Norfolk, eastern England.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Philip was uninjured in the January 17 accident, while the driver of the Kia sustained cuts to the knee.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fairweather, a passenger in the Kia, had complained to the Sunday Mirror last weekend that she had not received an apology from the prince.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was somewhat shaken after the accident, but I was greatly relieved that none of you were seriously injured," said Philip in the letter dated January 21, according to this Sunday's report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have since learned that you suffered a broken arm. I am deeply sorry about this injury."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Philip, known for his forthright manner and off-colour jokes, retired from public life in 2017 and underwent a hip replacement operation last April.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accident stirred up what The Sun described as Britain's "age-old debate" about whether and when the elderly should give up driving.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Images published the weekend following the crash appeared to show the prince behind the wheel of a replacement Land Rover Freelander on his wife Queen Elizabeth II's private Sandringham estate.</p>
<p class="title">Britain's Prince Philip has said he is "deeply sorry" about the injury suffered by a woman in a car crash he was involved in over a week ago, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The newspaper published a copy of a letter written by the 97-year-old royal to Emma Fairweather, who broke her wrist when the Kia she was in collided with the prince's Land Rover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I would like you to know how very sorry I am for my part in the accident... I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences," said the letter, signed by Philip in blue pen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The crash, which left the prince's vehicle on its side, happened as he pulled out of a side road onto a busy main road near the royal country residence in Norfolk, eastern England.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Philip was uninjured in the January 17 accident, while the driver of the Kia sustained cuts to the knee.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fairweather, a passenger in the Kia, had complained to the Sunday Mirror last weekend that she had not received an apology from the prince.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I was somewhat shaken after the accident, but I was greatly relieved that none of you were seriously injured," said Philip in the letter dated January 21, according to this Sunday's report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have since learned that you suffered a broken arm. I am deeply sorry about this injury."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Philip, known for his forthright manner and off-colour jokes, retired from public life in 2017 and underwent a hip replacement operation last April.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accident stirred up what The Sun described as Britain's "age-old debate" about whether and when the elderly should give up driving.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Images published the weekend following the crash appeared to show the prince behind the wheel of a replacement Land Rover Freelander on his wife Queen Elizabeth II's private Sandringham estate.</p>