THE brave survivors of a horrifying crash that killed three teenagers and a taxi driver have spoken out for the first time since the devastating day.
Three teenagers and a taxi driver were tragically killed in the horror crash and four others were left seriously injured.
Georgina Daniels, 28, and her husband Tom Daniels, 29 were travelling in the taxiCredit: Gofundme
Four lives were lost and four others were left seriously injured after a collision in BoltonCredit: SWNS
Five others were rushed to hospital after the crash in Bolton, Greater on January 11.
The crash – involved a red Seat Leon and a C4 Picasso taxi in a head-on collision on a quiet residential road in Deane.
Further video footage is also understood to be forming part of a police investigation of the crash.
Cops as Mohammed Jibrael Mukhtar, Farhan Patel, both aged 18, and Mohammed Danyaal, aged 19. Taxi driver Mosrab Ali, 54, of Blackburn, was also named by .
Georgina Daniels, 28, and her husband Tom Daniels, 29 were travelling in the taxi at the time of the collision and have been left with life changing injuries.
The catastrophic crash happened just seven months after the couple’s wedding.
Tragically the future of their married life looks very different as the couple will both need 24-hour care following their injuries.
“I can’t fathom how we’re all still alive – it should have taken our lives,” she told the Manchester Evening News.
“I have no idea how we’re all still here after seeing what happened to everyone and the state we are all in.
“We’re still struggling to come to terms with the fact that all the things we’re talking about and reading about are about us. It’s hard to process.
“I can’t really put into words what it was like. I’m not sure anyone can describe what that is like.
“The pain we’ve been in itself has been relentless, just unbearable.
“Our lives will never be the same again.
“We’ve got a long journey now of rehabilitation, and both of those journeys are very different.”
Between the two of them they have had four surgeries, their two other friends who survived but have also been left with life changing injuries do not wish to be identified.
The group of four taxi passengers were travelling together after a party celebrating other friends who are moving to .
Understandably, one of the things Georgina is most upset about is the fact that the couple will have to spend so long apart while they recover.
“We’ve basically always lived together – even when we didn’t have our own place, we would pack bags and stay at each other’s mum’s house for three or four days at a time.
“We’ve never been separate for too long. Now it’s our first year of and we are going to have to live apart with life-changing injuries, with no end date.” she said.
Friends of the four survivors have launched a fundraiser , to help them through the unimaginable days ahead.
Overnight, £17,000 was raised in donations.
The Daniels’ paid a moving tribute to their taxi driver who was killed, Mosrab Ali, urging change on Britain’s roads.
His eldest daughter, Humayra, described her dad as a hard-working, devoted father and ‘the gentlest soul’.
Georgina said: “There needs to be realisations, but that should have been done much earlier. This kind of danger can’t just be acceptable, where you just say ‘watch out.
“When people drive like that, it’s done for attention and status. It needs to be that, collectively, everyone doesn’t give it any attention or status. It just needs to be that it doesn’t happen.”
The brother of the teenager thought to be the driver of the Seat, Mohammed Jibrael Mukhtar, has issued a public apology to the family of Mr Ali who died in the crash.
In the videos, filmed in the car that caused the crash, his brother was at around 90mph at the time of the crash and said he had made “a huge, huge mistake”.
He had repeatedly told him to slow down while out driving, he added.
The future of their married life is uncertain, as Georgina says: “[Our outcome] changes every single minute.
“We have both got so many different injuries, we can’t make one decision without looking at the rest.
“We have no expectations, we are just living hour by hour.
“We are trying to be positive and trying to get back to how we were in those pictures. That’s the only thing we can look forward to.”
Between the two of them they have had four surgeriesCredit: Gofundme
The driver was going at around 90mph at the time of the crashCredit: SWNS
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