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Major incident as black cab ploughs into four shoppers on busy Glasgow street
Photos from the scene show a black taxi cab on the pavement outside a Tesco store
POLICE locked down a street outside Glasgow Central after an "out of control" black cab ploughed into four shoppers.
Emergency crews raced to the scene on Union Street at its junction with Gordon Street this afternoon at around 2pm following the horror crash.
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Photos from the scene show a black taxi cab on the pavement outside Tesco.
The pedestrians were hit by the taxi during the crash, with police and passersby giving them first aid.
Two women, aged 60 and 61, and the male driver of the taxi, aged 62, were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
A 61-year-old woman was taken to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and one woman aged, 50 was assessed by paramedics at the scene.
Cops sealed off Union Street, Renfield Street and St Vincent Street for five hours - meanwhile Gordon Street was open to pedestrians only.
Punters were urged to avoid the area.
The roads were reopened at around 7pm.
A woman told how she was knocked down by the “out of control” taxi which ploughed into pedestrians.
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She was walking on the pavement with her partner when the cab mounted the pavement at the junction of Gordon St and Union St in Glasgow.
She said: “I heard screaming. The taxi was coming straight for us.
“I tried to move out the way but it clipped me. It sent me sprawling to the ground.
“There are a couple of ladies it struck who look in a bad way.
“There was no time to react. It just came out of nowhere.”
Her partner said: “The driver lost control. I managed to jump out the way.
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“Others weren’t so lucky.”
The woman clutched her right leg but managed to walk away from the accident.
More than 20 emergency services vehicles swooped on the street after the accident.
Officers cordoned off the road while victims were treated behind plastic sheets.
One onlooker held back tears as he said: “The cab mounted the pavement.
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“A group of kids were almost hit but managed to get out the way.
“It hit a group of ladies who got knocked to the ground. It was horrific.
“People were screaming and running everywhere.”
A shop assistant working across from where the accident took place told how she saw people “running and screaming”.
She added: "It’s just awful."
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 1.50pm, we attended a report of a crash involving a taxi and three pedestrians on Union Street, at the junction with Gordon Street, in Glasgow City Centre.
"Three people were taken by ambulance to hospital and one person made their way from the scene."
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said: "We received a call at 1.55pm to assist partners at Union Street in Glasgow.
"Operations control mobilised two appliances and a specialist resource to the scene.
"We have now left the incident."
Sergeant Christopher Hoggans from Road Policing said: “Our enquiries are ongoing to establish exactly what happened.
"I am appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time to contact us with any information they may have.
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"I would also ask anyone with recording equipment to check the footage as it could assist us in our ongoing investigation.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland via 101, quoting incident number 1825 of Saturday, 5 October, 2024.
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