{"id":164415,"date":"2025-06-07T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164415\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:31:15","slug":"man-charged-with-dangerous-driving-over-crash-that-killed-pensioner-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164415\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with dangerous driving over crash that killed pensioner in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makyle Taggart, 29, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a pensioner died following a crash on February 9 this year.<\/p>\n<p>71-year-old Wynford &#8216;Willie&#8217; Griffiths died following the collision in Audley Road, Stetchford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-midlands.police.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> also said: &#8220;A second man, Zephaniah Taggar, aged 32, was charged with disqualified driving relating to an incident prior to the collision and also remanded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both were remanded to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court today (Friday, June 6).<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;Mr Griffiths&#8217; family has been informed of this development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts remain with them at this tragic time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Makyle Taggart, 29, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a pensioner died following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114639502281498277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}