You have to hand it to Prince Philip

[Big RR]

Maybe, but he always reminded me about a person who just did what he wanted and didn't give a damn about what anyone else said--he might have just carried this forward into his advanced age. Kind of like, I'm the damn price consort, I'll drive whenever I want.

[ex-khobar Andy]

I read an article this morning indicating it’s highly unusual for a royal to be without security detail upon leaving the estate; I can’t help wondering if Philip went walkabout related to dementia? I’ve suspected since he ended public appearances that it was related to a diagnosis.

From the Daily Mail coverage:

It is understood the security team followed in a car behind and arrived 'very quickly', but only once Philip had been dragged to safety from his written-off Land Rover.

I'm guessing that with the best will in the world, dragging a 97 year old man from the sunroof of his totaled Land Rover might take a minimum of a couple of minutes. Which implies that his security team must have been a mile or so behind. That does not sound like very effective security to me. He and the passengers in the other car were very lucky that all injuries appear to be minor.

I think walkabout, or at least sneaking out while the security guys were on tea break (~ 3PM) is the best surmise. And BTW the Land Rover was armo(u)red which explains why it was top-heavy.

[Gob]

[Bicycle Bill]

A measly little KIA crossover did that to a big armored Land Rover?
No wonder ISIS and the other middle-east militants are almost exclusively driving those Toyota Hilux pickup trucks.  Put a 50-caliber or a couple of shoulder-fired Stingers in the back, like on the old TV show "Rat Patrol", and in the hands of a jihad-driven fanatic seeking his 72 virgins, something like that would probably be a match for an Abrams tank.

-"BB"-

[Crackpot]

you could do that pretty easy on any suv if you manage to get below the bumper. Add to that equation that emergency breaking dives the nose of a vehicle down and Land Rovers sit up high not an unexpected conclusion.

[RayThom]

And who can forget that famous phrase the Duke of Edinburgh yells out loudly after his ride rolls into a ditch, “My legs, my legs! My kingdom for my legs!”

Artist Rendering:

[ex-khobar Andy]

And just to unite two threads: