Manchester City return to Champions League action on Wednesday evening after recording successive domestic defeats for the first time since January.
15.09.2023 - 05:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man spent eight days in a coma after a 16-year-old driving his mum's car ploughed into the taxi he was riding home in. Michael Hanrahan had taken the keys to his mother's white Mercedes A200 while she slept.
He reached speeds of up to 80mph in a 30mph zone in Ashton-under-Lyne, later claiming he was being pursued by another car which he feared contained men armed with machetes. Hanrahan went through a red light at a junction and ploughed into a taxi, causing it to spin and hit some railings.
The passenger, a man in his 20s, spent eight days in an induced coma after suffering a catalogue of injuries. In the months following the horror crash, he could not carry out basic tasks including washing and dressing himself, and felt ‘embarrassed’ and ‘useless’.
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Hanrahan, now 19, walked free from court after admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Manchester Crown Court heard that the collision happened on Oldham Road, near the junction with Newmarket Street and Wilshaw Lane, at about 11pm on Sunday, December 13, 2020.
Hanrahan had taken his mother's car and was being pursued by another vehicle, he claimed. Police later estimated that he had been travelling at between 65mph and 81mph in the lead up to the collision, prosecutor Justin Hayhoe said.
He went through a red light at the junction and crashed into a taxi, a Toyota Prius, which had been driving 'entirely appropriately'. The taxi spun and hit some railings.
The driver walked away with minor injuries but the back seat passenger was seriously hurt. His catalogue of injuries included a bleed on the brain, fractures to his neck and pelvis and the collapsing of both
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