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Manchester Evening News

August 12, 2006 Saturday

A TAXI driver's "bad error of judgment" cost 78-year-old front seat passenger Raymond Warhurst his life.

Azim Khan, 36, was taking the widower and a friend home from bingo when he cut across another car at traffic lights in Gorton, Manchester, last March, a court heard.

Mr Warhurst, of Mellards Court, Levenshulme Road, Gorton, was hurt in the crash and hours later suffered a fatal heart attack.

District judge Alan Berg, sitting at Manchester Magistrates Court, told Khan: "Your driving fell lamentably below the standard expected of a professional driver."

Father-of-three, Khan, from Nelson, who admitted driving without due care and attention - a non-imprisonable offence - was fined £750, banned for two years and told he will have to take a re-test before driving again.

Mr Warhurst had five daughters and a son, Stephen, who said after the case: "All of us are happy that the judge did as much as he could."
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Well the judge may have done the best that he could but it was not good enough!!!!

How many of us can say hand on heart we have never driven without " due care and attention"?

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