Shock as taxi crashes into garden after colliding with parked car on residential Rotherham street
This was the scene on a quiet South Yorkshire street after a taxi crashed into a parked car, before ending up in a nearby garden.
South Yorkshire Police were called to the scene after the collision, after the cab was reported to have lost control on the residential street in Kimberworth Park, Rotherham.
Locals said they felt it was lucky no one had been killed or seriously injured, after the collision on Roughwood Road.
Resident David Gill, a 38-year-old NHS worker, was the owner of a parked Toyota Aygo, which was parked on the street when the taxi, a Toyota Auris, is said to have crashed into it, before leaving the road and ending up with half the vehicle inside a garden.
He was in York on a day trip with friends when the collision happened, which he also said pushed his car into the back of another vehicle, owned by his friend Iain Doherty, a kitchen worker in Birmingham, who had parked it there while the friends headed off to join former college pals on a day out.
A third college friend was driving all three of them to York to share the cost.
Iain’s Ford Fiesta was also damaged.
David said: “We’d just arrived in York city centre and were in a Sainsburys when my neighbours rang to say what had happened.
“We came straight back. It was a massive shock, I couldn’t believe it, but it probably helped me in how upsetting it was because I wasn’t there at the time.
“I’d only just finished paying for the car. I feels like you can’t have anything nice without someone coming along and wrecking it.”
The incident was reported just after 12noon on Saturday (March 28), and David added: “Now we just think it is really fortunate that no one was killed.”
A spokesman for Phoenix Taxis said he understood the car taxi had needed to swerve to avoid another vehicle coming in the opposite direction. The company uses freelance drivers.
South Yorkshire Police have been approached for comment.