In 1996, police figures show, taxi accidents injured 20,000 people, about 850 seriously, and killed 29, mostly pedestrians.

Then Burnett was sidelined due to a serious neck injury sustained in a taxi accident.

It was composed after 2 Plus 1's taxi accident four years earlier.

In 1932, Ravel suffered a major blow to the head in a taxi accident.

Injuries in taxi accidents rose from 12,536 in 1990 to 19,958 in 1996, an increase of 59 percent.

Twenty-nine people were killed in taxi accidents in 1996.

Statistics that the commission does keep indicate that taxi accidents may be increasing.

Whatever the causes of taxi accidents, the numbers have been climbing alarmingly.

Oscar Lavery, the cluck, was dumb enough to get killed in a taxi accident.

The Mayor has said that given a recent spate of taxi accidents, it was "a political no-brainer" to crack down on the industry.