{"id":758656,"date":"2026-09-03T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758656\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:46:09","slug":"taxi-driver-held-after-woman-struck-and-killed-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758656\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver held after woman struck and killed in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by drug driving after a pedestrian was struck by a private hire car in Liverpool and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 26-year-old woman was hit by a Toyota Voxy taxi on the city-bound carriageway of Aigburth Road, between Fulwood Road and Larkfield Road, Merseyside Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her family have been informed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 41-year-old man, who was driving the taxi and stopped at the scene, is being questioned in police custody on suspicion of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving whilst under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Sgt Andy Roper said: &#8220;First and foremost my thoughts and those of my team remain with the woman&#8217;s family at this sad time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Road death causes devastation for all those involved and it is our absolute priority to get answers for her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the force was examining CCTV from the area, and appealed for witnesses, adding: &#8220;Aigburth Road is a very busy road and we know at that time there would have been a large volume of vehicles including buses, taxis and delivery drivers, together with pedestrians, in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone with dashcam or doorbell footage is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by drug driving after a pedestrian was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-758656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}