Haunting update in Bolton car crash tragedy that's left community 'absolutely broken' - The Mirror

Masrob Ali, described as "the "gentlest soul", died after the Citroen C4 Picasso taxi he was driving on Wigan Road in Bolton, Greater Manchester collided head on with a red Seat Leon

Crashes on a residential street where a taxi and a Seat Leon collided on Sunday — killing four people — happen "every couple of months," it is said.

Families say accidents regularly occur on Wigan Road in Bolton, Greater Manchester, as they expressed their sadness at the deaths of Masrob Ali, 54, and three teenagers. A red Seat Leon collided with a Citroen C4 Picasso taxi on the road during the early hours of Sunday morning.

It has now emerged that just before Christmas, a car collided with a wall just a few hundred yards from the scene of Sunday's tragedy. Debris including part of the car's bumper is still present, while a wall adjacent to the school entrance is partially collapsed. This was reportedly one of several crashes on Wigan Road, home to primary schools, in recent months.

One resident said: "I've lived here 25 years and the traffic problems are getting worse and worse. I've been complaining for the last four years. Some of my friends are taxi drivers — it could have been one of them killed, or it could have been one of my family. We need action to slow the traffic down."

One mother living across from the crash site said: "The problem is that it's quite a long stretch of road which is quite wide with nothing to slow drivers down and with some, I don't think drivers realise their speed. If they don't sort something out, I fear more lives will be lost."

Greater Manchester Police are investigating a video shared on social media, which appears to show a car travelling 122mph around 24 hours before the crash. The vehicle seems to weave in and out of traffic, overtaking other cars and veering into the oncoming lane in the shocking video, filmed in the same area in which the crash happened.

Police named the other victims as Mohammed Jibrael Mukhtar, aged 18, Farhan Patel, aged 18, and Mohammed Danyaal, aged 19. Five passengers from both vehicles were injured and remain in hospital, police said on Monday.

Mr Ali's daughter, Humayra, 29, told BBC Manchester: "It's absolutely devastating. We are all in shock — even in denial. I feel like it's just a bad dream that I'm about to wake up from.

"He was just a really good man, anyone would say so. Anyone who has known him would say he's a kind man, very generous, has a big heart.

"People have come back to tell me that he had the gentlest soul, he's hard-working, and he was very hard-working right until his last breath."