{"id":19301,"date":"2016-11-28T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=19301"},"modified":"2016-11-28T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:26:10","slug":"multi-millionaire-s-son-killed-mercedes-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/multi-millionaire-s-son-killed-mercedes-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi- Millionaire &#8216;s Son Killed in Mercedes Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"dropcap\" style=\"background-color: #cc99ff; color: #000000;\">T<\/span>he son of millionaire who owned Poundstretcher has died, following a car crash which took place in Rugby, Warwickshire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabir Tayub was only 48 when his Mercedes was driven off of the M45 and collided with a tree, causing the wealthy businessman to die.\u00a0 The police are still investigating what has happened and are also looking into the reasons why this could&#8217;ve happened. Explanations such as bad road conditions or adverse weather all could possibly be viable reasons as to why the accident had taken place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabir was known to be married with children and\u00a0 was the son of Rashid Tayub, whose brother Aziz helped set up Crown Crest distribution &#8211; which own National chain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sabrir.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19304 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sabrir-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"sabrir\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sabrir-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sabrir.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Poundstretcher. The wholesale empire is known to be run by Aziz only now, with the Tayub family thought to have a personal fortune of \u00a3250million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tayub was the managing director of Nottingham based store giant Sert Uk and property investment company Sami Property Co Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once police and ambulance was reached the site, he was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tributes came flooding in on Facebook, his friend Andy Dunlop wrote: &#8216;The reason we all work is because we love our customers. So, when one is tragically killed in a car crash on Tuesday at no age, it is so much more than you may think.\u00a0&#8216;Those in my job will understand he was a mate. Funeral done. RIP\u00a0Sabir Tayub\u00a0&#8211; An entrepreneur.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officers investigating the incident on the M45 would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the car before the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of millionaire who owned Poundstretcher has died, following a car crash which took place in Rugby, Warwickshire. Sabir Tayub was only 48 when his Mercedes was driven off of the M45 and collided with a tree, causing the wealthy businessman to die.\u00a0 The police are still investigating what has happened and are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":19303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,38,3,112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-latest","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}