Sleeping driver caused horror crash

A taxi driver claimed he ‘kind of fell asleep’ after 15 hours at the wheel when he crashed and left his passenger with brain injuries, a court heard. Idrissa Bangura, 61, lost control of his Mercedes Benz Vito cab while driving 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….