Passenger stole taxi he was in then died after crashing it

A man stole a taxi he was a passenger in, then crashed it and died, an inquest heard yesterday.

Kian Collier, 22, of Old Colwyn, Conwy, North Wales was nearly three times over the drink drive limit when he got behind the wheel of the vehicle in the early hours of October 28 last year.

He had been a passenger in the taxi, a white Hyundai Ioniq, when he took the car without the driver’s consent...