{"id":28647,"date":"2019-03-05T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28647"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:06:16","slug":"birmingham-law-student-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/05\/birmingham-law-student-killed-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Law Student Killed in Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A law student from Birmingham has been killed in a tragic crash in\u00a0West Yorkshire after his silver Honda Civic plunged into a ditch off Forge Lane in Dewsbury.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asad Hussain, 22, who was studying at the University of Birmingham was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday afternoon (March 3).<\/p>\n

A 20-year-old woman, who was in the passenger seat, suffered minor injuries in the collision.<\/p>\n

She was taken to Leeds General Infirmary.<\/p>\n

West Yorkshire Police arrested a 23-year-old woman in a second vehicle on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

A member of the victim’s family, Kirklees councillor Mussarat Pervaiz, (Dewsbury West), said she had known him since he was a little boy.<\/p>\n

She said: “His father is Ajib Hussain and his mother is Asia. They had three sons and two daughters and Asad was the eldest.<\/p>\n

“I understand he was in the car with his sister, Aroosa, and were on their way back home after visiting a local gym.<\/p>\n

“He was such a bright young lad and there are not enough words to say how we are all feeling at the moment.<\/p>\n

“All his friends are outside crying in the street.<\/p>\n

“His mother is originally from Birmingham and they have family down there so it made sense for him to study there.<\/p>\n

“He was a very kind-hearted young man and was raising money to do charity work in countries where poverty is extreme and was going to go out and dig some wells with his friends.<\/p>\n

“The family were due to fly out to Pakistan next week for a wedding but instead they will be attending their son’s funeral service at the mosque on North Road, Ravensthorpe.”<\/p>\n

Police are still appealing for witnesses.<\/p>\n

West Yorkshire Police Duty Inspector Darren Brown said: “At 12.53pm on Sunday, 3\u00a0March, police were called to a report of a vehicle which had come off the road and into a ditch at Forge Lane, Dewsbury.<\/p>\n

“The vehicle was a Silver Honda Civic.\u00a0 On police arrival the 22yr old male driver of the Civic was found to be deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A law student from Birmingham has been killed in a tragic crash in\u00a0West Yorkshire after his silver Honda Civic plunged into a ditch off Forge Lane in Dewsbury. Asad Hussain, 22, who was studying at the University of Birmingham was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday afternoon (March 3). A 20-year-old woman, who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,38,3,112],"tags":[2018,2021,566,2019,2020],"class_list":["post-28647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham-law-student","tag-dewsbury","tag-university-of-birmingham","tag-west-yorkshire","tag-west-yorkshire-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28647","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}