Taxi Driver Online

This apparently happened 2 years ago in Leicester but can't find it in search

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg42vzp4devo

A driver has admitted causing the death of a taxi passenger in a crash in Leicester nearly two years ago.

Donna Brighton, 60, died when the taxi she was in collided with a silver Vauxhall Astra in Glenfield Road just before 20:30 BST on 16 September 2023. Two other passengers in the taxi were seriously injured.

Thomas Goulty, 35, the Vauxhall driver, admitted one count of causing death by careless driving and two counts of causing serious injury by careless driving at Leicester Crown Court on Monday.

Sarwar Mohammad, 68, who the court heard was driving a Peugeot Expert Tepee, denied causing death by dangerous driving and also denied two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

A provisional trial date for Mr Mohammad, of Willow Brook Road in Leicester, was set for 30 November next year.

Goulty, of Aikman Avenue, Leicester, will likely be sentenced at the end of the trial, the court was told.

The pair were bailed ahead of a further hearing on 30 January.

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Presumably this will help him in terms of the punishment he receives.

Assuming, of course, if he'd stood trial on the more serious charges he'd been found guilty. Which we'll never know.


Taxi driver admits role in multi-vehicle crash which killed grandmother

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news ... i-11075438

Two other people were seriously injured in the September 2023 incident

A taxi driver has admitted lesser charges for his role in a crash which killed a grandmother and seriously injured two others.

Donna Brighton was in Sarwar Mohammed's Peugeot Expert Tepee taxi with two others when it collided with a Vauxhall Astra on Glenfield Road in Western Park, Leicester, on Saturday, September 16, 2023.

The crash led to the death of 60-year-old Ms Brighton and left two other taxi passengers - a man in his 40s and a woman in her 50s - with serious injuries.

The Astra driver, Thomas Goulty, 34, last year pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving, as well as guilty to two further counts of causing serious injury by careless driving, relating to the injured passengers.

But Mohammed, 69, was charged with the more serious offence of causing death by dangerous driving, as well as two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

He pleaded not guilty at last year's hearing and he was due to face trial in November this year.

But after discussions between Leicestershire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service reviewed the case, he was appeared at Leicester Crown Court today (Friday, July 24) for a further hearing.

New charges of causing the death and the serious injuries by careless driving - rather than dangerous driving - were put to him. He admitted those offences, which are the same as those faced by Goulty.

Mohammed, of Willow Brook Road, North Evington, Leicester, and Goulty, of Aikman Avenue, New Parks, were both charged by police in July.

Both men are due to be sentenced in September.

Judge Steven Evans released them on bail but told them that did not mean they might not face jail sentences.

He said: "You will both be on bail but I'm not making any promises about sentence, do you understand?"
He ordered the Probation Service to prepare reports on both men ahead of the sentencing hearing.

not enough evidence to get a conviction on the higher charge but you have to wonder if he'd pleaded not guilty to the lesser charges as well maybe no trial at all ?

Just on a different note the forum went almost 48 hours without a single post is this a record ? Apart from the period the forum was down for a week

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Clearly someone died, and I'm guessing there is evidence that his driving at the time wasn't perfect, but not dangerous. It could be he didn't pay enough attention to the road, or exceeded the speed limit a little bit, or ignored a road sign. Dangerous usually means quite excessive speed, weaving in and out of traffic, or racing another car.

Given that two drivers have been charged, I wonder if there was a bit of racing, or both not giving way using excessive speed.

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