Interviews with survivors and people who were directly involved in the accident’s aftermath largely confirm his description. “Mitt was not in any way at fault,” said Richard B. “Andy” Anderson, a son of Leola Anderson, who at the time of the accident was 27, attending graduate school at Harvard and living in Belmont. Anderson, who now lives in Kaysville, Utah, said he has gotten to know Romney in a variety of church roles over the years, and considers him to be a friend. “If I had any reason to think he was in the slightest degree at fault…**” The accident took place on a curving, two-lane highway in southern France in an area that, at the time, was rife with car crashes. In fact, Romney had passed another car accident on the same road, just before the collision. And France at the time was a notoriously dangerous place to drive.