{"id":23832,"date":"2017-08-31T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=23832"},"modified":"2017-08-31T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:00:59","slug":"tributes-paid-taxi-driver-killed-hit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/tributes-paid-taxi-driver-killed-hit-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes Paid To Taxi Driver Killed In Hit-And-Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Colleagues of Sajid Mohammed Shehzad have paid tribute to the \u201cwonderful man\u201d who was killed in a hit-and-run incident on the morning of the 29<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Shehzad was stood by his parked car on City Road, Edgbaston, when he was struck down. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His colleagues at taxi firm Falcon Cars have offered warm tributes to the 47-year-old father of four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was such a wonderful man,\u201d said one co-worker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked with him for a number of years, and everybody here is devastated. I was shocked when I heard the terrible news, I just can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great man to work with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle which hit Mr Shehzad at the junction of Rotton Park Road and Shenstone Road is still being searched for by police.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Alan Hands of the West Midlands Police\u2019s Collision Investigation Unit appealed to the public saying, \u201cAt the moment, we are keeping an open mind around what might have happened but we really need anyone who witnessed the collision or the lead up to it to give us a call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would urge anyone who saw what happened on City Road or has any information to urgently call my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should call police on 101, quoting log 193 29\/8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues of Sajid Mohammed Shehzad have paid tribute to the \u201cwonderful man\u201d who was killed in a hit-and-run incident on the morning of the 29th. Mr Shehzad was stood by his parked car on City Road, Edgbaston, when he was struck down. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His colleagues at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}