Cab Driver Apologizes For Injuring Midtown Tourist, Says Bike Messenger To Blame

By: Jose Martinez

The taxi driver involved in a crash that caused a British tourist to lose her leg offered a public apology Friday, but placed blame squarely on a bike messenger who he had allegedly been arguing with moments before. NY1's Jose Martinez filed the following report.

He's sorry, but he's not taking the blame.

Taxi driver Mohammed Himon called the accident that severely injured British tourist Sian Green an accident.

Even as the Taxi and Limousine Commission suspended his license on Friday, Himon insisted he'd done no wrong, speaking outside Bellevue Hospital, where Green is being treated.

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