Crash taxi driver named

4:19pm Tuesday 27th February 2007

POLICE have named a taxi driver who was killed after his vehicle crashed into a tree.

Father-of-three Paul Caves, 54, was chaffeuring a couple along Field End Road in Eastcote when his Ford Mondeo hit the tree outside Eastcote Tube Station at 1.55am on Sunday.

Ambulance and fire crews cut Mr Caves, of Blenheim Road, Northolt, free from the wreckage and rushed him to Northwick Park Hospital.

He died in hospital a short while later. An inquest yesterday revealed that Mr Caves died from multiple injuries.

The family has been told and police say they are "shell-shocked" by the tragedy.

A man and a woman in their 30s were also taken to the hospital where they remain in a stable condition.

Police say a number of members of the public offered to help and police are interested in talking to anyone who saw the crash.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the collision investigation unit at Alperton on 020 8998 5319.