British tourist in horror taxi cab accident sues New York for $27.5 million Sian Green, 24, an aspiring model and fashion industry buyer, had her left leg amputated below the knee and had to have part of her right leg reattached following a road-rage clash between the cab driver and a bicycle courier. In the wake of Miss Green's accident in August, the commission admitted that up to 4,500 of New York's 110,000 taxi drivers were still on the roads despite exceeding the six-point bar because a now-fixed "computer glitch" failed to transfer violation information to the city from the state department of motor vehicles. "Due to the [violation] points that Mr Himon had accrued on his license, the Taxi & Limousine Commission should have suspended his license BEFORE the time of the accident," Mr Marchese said in his filing. TLC failed to ensure pedestrian safety, and specifically, [Sian Green's] safety and well-being, therefore breaching its duty of care to her. He told The Daily Telegraph that the $27.5 million figure "was arrived at by looking at past jury decisions and settlements on people who had lost their limbs." Miss Green, a part-time sales clerk who was eating a hot-dog with a friend on the first day of her "dream holiday" when she was hit, lost 47 days of work, according to the filing.