Two men have been charged with a number of offences, including robbery and kidnap, after a BMW crashed into a care home in Sunderland following a police chase.<\/p>\n
The deaths of two Highcliffe Care Home residents, a woman in her 80s and another in her 90s who died the day after the crash, are still being investigated, said police. Eight other residents were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
Sam Asgari-Tabar, 21 from Sunderland, has been charged with causing serious injury to a resident by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n
He and Reece Parish, 21 from Sunderland, are also charged with robbery and kidnap and will appear at at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday night, officers had been following a BMW that had been reported stolen from an address in Fenham, Newcastle, at around 21:20 BST.<\/p>\n
Police were authorised to pursue the vehicle, which crashed into the care home in Witherwack around five minutes later.<\/p>\n
It is alleged a woman involved in a proposed sale was inside the car when it was driven off before she was forcibly removed a short time later.<\/p>\n
She was left shaken but uninjured, Northumbria Police said.<\/p>\n
A mandatory referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.<\/p>\n
The care home had to be evacuated following the crash, which caused major structural damage to the building.<\/p>\n
Northumbria Police is considering whether the crash contributed to the two women’s deaths.<\/p>\n
Of the eight injured care home residents, only one was still in hospital by Friday evening.<\/p>\n
In a separate matter, Mr Parish has also been charged with violent disorder in connection with events in Sunderland city centre on August 2 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged with a number of offences, including robbery and kidnap, after a BMW crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-258444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839295260796406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258444","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=258444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}