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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Stephanie Wareham

Driver being followed by police before fatal crash told passengers ‘to run’

An inquest is being held at Birmingham and Solihull Coroners Court into the death of 29-year-old Muhammad Qasim (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Archive)

A driver who was being followed by police told his passengers to “jump out the car and run” seconds before he crashed into a tree and suffered fatal injuries, an inquest has heard.

Muhammad Qasim, 29, was captured speaking on an 18-second video taken by backseat passenger Mohammed Ibrahim moments before he failed to negotiate a bend in the road on Island Road, Handsworth, in the early hours of October 2 2023, and crashed his BMW into the central reservation.

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