£115k payout to Brit hurt in NY cab crash
CASH Sian Green-Lord, 29 A BRITON who lost part of her leg after being mown down by a taxi in New York has won a £115,000 payout.
Sian Green-Lord, 29, was on the first day of a dream holiday when the yellow cab mounted the kerb.
It ploughed into her and severed her left foot.
Witnesses said the driver was in a road-rage clash with a bicycle courier moments earlier.
Sian said: “The last thing I remember is the cyclist being on the hood of the car and I flipped in the air.”
Taxi driver Faysal Himon has never faced criminal charges over the crash, in Manhattan in 2013, and blames it on the cyclist.
Sian, of Leicester, was awarded compensation last month. She said: “It’s the first time in a long time I’ve felt really positive.”
Kids shelter under a truck at the border DONALD Trump won the White House with his plan for a border wall and a relentless attack on immigration.
His plans have caused misery in the border region and bitter division, politically, in America.
So the Mirror spoke to the people at the sharp end of Trump’s divisive policies which, they say, condemn them to death as they flee violence and poverty in pursuit life in America.
We drove the length of the 1,990-mile US/Mexico border to learn first hand the struggles, savagery and suffering.
Over the next three days, the Mirror will take you on the journey starting today on the Guatemalan border with Mexico, where 12,000 people in the “caravan of hope” have passed through.
As little Oneida Paz plays innocently with her cousins, the toddler’s doting parents watch over her. With 4,000 other migrants, the young Honduran family wait patiently under what shade they can find in the searing 33C heat, while hoping for legal entry into Mexico.
If successful, ahead lies a long trek which they hope will one day deliver their “little angel” from the BATH Limited violence and oppression in facilities at the their gang-ridden homeland holding point in
Ciudad Hidalgo to the Land of the Free.
Oneida is oblivious to the gruelling plight she faces as her parents plan their journey to the US.
And, thankfully, she is too young to know that Donald Trump views her mother and father – along with the other migrants heading to America for a better life – as killers, rapists, drug dealers and “bad hombres”.
The Mirror met the toddler and her family after being granted exclusive access to the Ciudad Hidalgo crossing on the border of Mexico and Guatemala, to see first hand the growing humanitarian crisis that has now left more than 25,000 central Americans without a country to call home.
They now plan to make their way to Tijuana, 1,600 miles away, on the US border near San Diego.
Each day, as caravans of migrants begin their arduous journey north, Trump continues to exploit their plight in an Boris Guaro Migrants go into Mexico BORIS GUARO, DEPORTEE WHO IS HEADING BACK TO AMERICA
Whether there is a wall or not, they’ll find a way to the States, legally or illegally
attempt to secure funding for his £4.1billion wall. He said at the weekend: “If we had a powerful wall, they wouldn’t even try to make the long, dangerous journey. Build the wall and crime will fall.”
But Trump’s rhetoric has failed to deter the thousands of migrants who have crossed the Suchiate River road bridge at this border checkpoint. Already thousands are now heading north after being granted