Doh !

How not to stop a taxi. Some cab at the garage where I just gassed up.
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[Paul Wakeford]

Brick, body..?

Paul

[adrian]

I suspect a body, Paul. On closer inspection there appears to be two impact points. Namely, an additional smaller impact at 10 o'clock. Maybe the larger impact being a shoulder slam and the smaller one a head slam, of somewhat reduced force.

Whatever, the vehicle had just been washed at the cabwash and the plates removed. If it was a fatality the vehicle would have been impounded in a police holding yard.

This holiday weekend two years ago, I helped stretcher a Spanish fella into an ambulance. Returning from the Sleaze Ball in the early morning he had stepped in front of a cab, doing 60kph, on Anzac Parade.

Not only had he impacted and shattered the windscreen, but had rolled up onto the roof and destroyed the rooflight rack, badly gashing his arm. This seemed to be his only serious injury. To reassure him I said, 'Mate, you should be dead..'.

As with this tragedy a few weeks earlier, a direct head impact at 40 kph...