Labour peer dies after mobility scooter crash outside British parliament
Xinhua, November 25, 2016 Adjust font size:
Thomas Taylor, a Labour peer, has died after being seriously hurt after his mobility scooter was hit by a van outside the Parliament, the British media reported on Friday.
Lord Taylor of Blackburn, 87, was knocked off his mobility scooter in a collision with a van on Wednesday last week, and then was admitted to hospital.
He was a former Labour leader of Blackburn Town Council in the 1970s and was made a life peer in 1978 by then Prime Minister James Callaghan. Endit