Sleeping taxi man let off after horror crash

A taxi driver who left his passenger with brain injuries when he fell asleep after 15 hours at the wheel has been fined £1,000. Idrissa Bangura, 61, lost control of his Mercedes Benz Vito cab while driving oil industry analyst Mubarak Al-Shafi, 28, from the Sheraton Park Hotel in Mayfair along the A4 towards the Piccadilly Underpass. As they approached the split between the underpass and the slip road, the taxi ploughed into a bollard, Southwark Crown Court heard. ‘Mr…