CAR CRASH CASUALTIES
FORMER BRADFORD PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER ADMITS CAUSING BOYS DEATH ON MANCHESTER ROAD
A former Bradford private hire driver has been warned to expect a substantial prison sentence for causing the death of a seven-year- old boy who was knocked down on the city’s Manchester Road. Malakye Hall was killed late on August 11, 2020, when he was hit by a Toyota Auris driven by Mohsin Hussain, 32, from Bradford. On 2 October, Hussain pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court, on the day he was to stand trial for causing the little boy’s death by
dangerous driving. The Crown did not proceed with a second charge of causing Malakye’s death by driving without insurance. Prosecutor Abigail Langford said footage from the night in question would be played during the opening of the case when Hussain is sentenced on November 23. Judge Jonathan Rose enlarged his bail until that date but told him: “Be under no illusions, it will be a very
substantial sentence of imprisonment for the taking of the
life of this child.” Hussain was banned from driving. His barrister told the court that Hussain had paid for the little boy’s funeral and attended his wake. Malakye was killed at just after 10pm after he had left his mother’s address and was trying to cross the carriageway. Malakye was taken to hospital but died that later night from extensive head injuries. In August 2021, his mother Wendy Hall was jailed for three years for neglecting him.
SHORT-SIGHTED BRIGHTON CABBIE GUILTY OF DANGEROUS DRIVING AFTER MAN KILLED IN CRASH
A short-sighted taxi driver was not wearing his glasses and thought he had hit a sheep or deer when he knocked down a young father- to-be and left him for dead. Abul Hussain struck Jack Brandon, 22, after dropping passengers off in Hassocks. Mr Brandon, from Hassocks, had been walking home after a wedding reception at 12.47am on July 3 last year. CCTV showed Hussain, 55, driving without glasses driving past Mr Brandon 90 seconds before. Hussain said he didn’t stop as it was “dangerous to stop there” on a national speed limit road. Mr Brandon was found dead at the side of the road at 11am that day. He had been walking in the same direction as traffic westbound. Hussain’s Peugeot Horizon was found in his driveway three days later with damage to the passen- ger side headlight, windscreen and wing mirror.
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Hussain was charged with failing to
stop, failing to report an
accident and alternative charges of dangerous and careless driving. He was found guilty of dangerous driving at Brighton Magistrates’ Court during a seven hour trial on 16 October. The court heard Hussain could only read a number plate 4.9m away without his glasses, a quarter of the 20m required by the DVLA. Piers Restell, prosecuting, said: “The collision would probably have occurred even if the defendant wore his glasses but with better vision, he would have identified Mr Brandon as a person and not think it was a sheep or deer.” The court also heard it was dark, the road was narrow and bordered by hedges and grass verges. Richard Saynor, defending, said there was nothing to suggest that Hussain was driving dangerously at the time of the crash. His speed
was between 40 to 45mph. He said there was just over one second between Mr Brandon being visible and the accident occurring. The defence said it takes two seconds to emergency break. Addressing the bench, Mr Saynor said: “You have to conclude his driving was careless. That the accident was unavoidable, it would have happened if he had glasses on or if someone had 20/20 vision.” Mr Restell disagreed and argued that knowing he needed glasses to drive “falls below the standard to be a safe, competent driver”. Asked why he was not wearing his glasses, Hussain said: “Since Covid when I wear glasses and a mask, my glasses fog up. It became my habit - sometimes I wear them, sometimes I did not.” Hussain was given an interim ban from driving until his sentencing. on December 13 at Brighton Magistrates’ Court.
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