Another taxi nightmare on Sixth Ave.
Two cabs fighting for a fare nearly caused another tragedy yesterday when one of the hacks jumped the curb and plowed into scaffolding just 12 blocks south of where a British tourist lost a leg Tuesday in another road-rage incident.
The taxis were racing up Sixth Avenue near 37th Street at around 1:30 a.m. when one cut the other off, police sources said.
Driver Subal Das is believed to have cut in front of fellow cabby Jacob Owusu when he spotted a fare, the sources said.
The two cars collided, and Das’ cab hopped the curb and careened into construction scaffolding, which collapsed.
“Thankfully, no one was on the street at that hour, or it could have been a lot worse,” a police source said.
The accident came just three days after a cab jumped the curb at Sixth Avenue and 49th Street and plowed into tourist Sian Green, 23, severing her left foot and mangling her right leg.
That cab driver, Mohammed Himon, 24, yesterday had his driver’s license suspended after pleading guilty to a suspension summons.
The summons was related to points Himon had accumulated from a series of moving violations, and not Tuesday’s crash, which police say is still under investigation.
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