King’s Cousin Given Jail Term in Crash That Killed Son, 11
A court today sentenced the Duke of Cadiz, first cousin of Spain’s King Juan Carlos, to six months in jail and revoked his driver’s license after a car crash which fatally injured his son.
Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre, his two sons and their governess were seriously injured when their car collided with a truck on Feb. 5, 1984, near this northern city. Francisco, 11, died of head injuries two days later.
The court said the duke ignored traffic signs as he drove his Citroen CX on a highway access road and failed to yield the right of way to the truck.
The court also ordered the duke to pay the boy’s mother, his ex-wife Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu, $6,250. Martinez-Bordiu, who is remarried, lives in Paris. Gen. Francisco Franco was her grandfather.
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