Khan’s brother held after car accident
9:27am Wednesday 11th January 2012 in News
AMIR Khan’s brother, Haroon, has been ordered to go on a driving course after being involved in an accident which left a pedestrian needing hospital treatment.
The boxer’s younger brother, Haroon, tweeted about the incident hours after being arrested and quizzed by police on suspicion of dangerous driving.
Haroon Khan was driving an Audi A4 in Deane Road when it hit a father-of-three.
On Monday, Mr Khan, known as Harry and using the Twitter name harrykingkhan, tweeted: “Just got home from police station had a accident in afternoon knocked a guy over everything on CCTV and should be ok.”
The 20-year-old flyweight boxer, who will represent Pakistan at the 2012 Olympics, has now been ordered to attend a driver improvement scheme.
The scheme, run by the National Association of Driver Intervention Providers, is a normal route offered to motorists as an alternative to prosecution when there has been a minor incident.
The injured pedestrian, who turns 38 today and suffers from severe epilepsy, said he was knocked to the ground by the car and taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital with a head injury. The man, who does not want to be named, has been discharged but says he has been left shaken and feeling unwell.
The man was crossing the road carrying a vacuum cleaner when he says he was hit by the car while his partner, five-yearold son and seven-week-old baby watched.
His mother said: “He went under the car and his son was screaming ‘my daddy is under the car’. ”
The Khan family declined to comment about the incident.
Å Yesterday, a man was injured in another collision on Deane Road — the fourth serious incident on the road in the past 10 days. The man, who was in his 20s, suffered a suspected broken armafter his motorbike collided with a green Ford Fiesta near the junction with Salisbury Street at 10.35am.
Last week, 18-year-old Paul Couperthwaite was killed when his Suzuki motorbike collided with a Vauxhall Vectra.
The next day, a man had to be cut free from his car after it was involved in a crash just metres from the fatal accident
