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It's been a quite a few years since I studied this, but wasn't the Archduke put into jeopardy because the car he was in took a wrong turning and as a result slowed down long enough for Princip to take a shot?

In which case, I'd say it was the wrong turn heard round the world...

Tragic bathos abounds. Princip had already given up (his co-conspirators' clumsy attempts to kill the Archduke and his party had gone wrong earlier in the day) and he was sitting disconsolately on the side of the road when, quite by chance, the car drove up alongside him going the wrong way. Such is the history of civilizations made.

IIRC the reason Franz Ferdinand had gone to Sarajevo in the first place was because it gave him an opportunity to act in his capacity as an Inspector General of the Army rather than as Heir Apparent of Franz Josef. He had married a comparatively low ranking woman, and under normal circumstances (i.e. when he was on public duty as the next in line to the throne) she was unable to take her place on the dais alongside her husband because of the insufferable protocol of the Habsburg Court. His visit to Bosnia was an act of love. Not that visiting Sarajevo on the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo was exactly an inspired decision.