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Taxi driver collapsed at the wheel before crashing through barriers

A taxi driver whose people carrier crashed through a barrier on a busy main road had collapsed at the wheel, police have said. A front seat passenger of the Mercedes people carrier desperately tried to keep control but was unable to stop it careering off the A316 Chertsey Road, in Twickenham, at about 9.40am today.

Police said the driver of the private taxi had an “underlying cardiac problem” and paramedics had taken him to Hammersmith Hospital. An air ambulance was scrambled and officers closed the A316 westbound carriageway after the Mercedes - which was carrying four passengers - crashed through barriers at the junction with Meadway, outside the Winning Post pub, and hit a parked Volkswagen Passat.

Witnesses said paramedics treated the driver at the roadside for about 40 minutes. One of the taxi passengers was also taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Dave Smith, of Chertsey Road, said he saw paramedics treating the driver before taking him away in an ambulance. He said: "They were working on him for some time. They were giving him a chest massage for about 40 minutes. There was the air ambulance and doctors as well. "He still had tubes going into him but he seemed more or less in one piece."

Richmond police said they have launched an investigation.

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IDFIMH

Hope if he knew about the cardiac problem, he'd disclosed it to the council and his insurance otherwise ffs, there's gonna be some claim.

. . . after working his 96 hour week for slave wages.

Quality.

Why?

The PCO allow convicted killers like Shamsil Sheik to drive London Minicabs, why worry about a small thing like bad health?

Just thought from experience, insurance companies will use any excuse not to pay out. and down your way councils must be more laxed than here.

bring on the WTD and tachos i say...

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

You sound like Bob Crowe.