Mr Abraham said the crash threw Mrs Glauber from the car and pinned her husband inside the taxi, forcing emergency workers to cut off the roof to get him out.

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The detective constable told the court that a large hole had been cut out of the roof of the van and it had been covered in tape.

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They also revealed the roof of the grey van had been cut away to direct the device.

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Some business leaders, state officials and MPs are allowed to drive with a blue light on the roof, giving them the right to cut through traffic.

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We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.

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