NY DJ run over by a cab while sleeping in hotel room
New York D.J. Jonathan Toubin was in critical condition (now stable) after a taxi ran into his motel room yesterday morning and ran him over. A black-and-white Radio Cab had plowed through bamboo bushes and into the ground floor room that was occupied by Toubin who was in Portland, Oregon to DJ a show Thursday night at a Southeast Portland club. He was found stuck under the front of the car. The car couldn’t be backed out of the room because its back wheels were stuck on the remains of the wall. It took 4 men to lift the cab off Toubin who was semi-conscious and had been pinned under the front of the cab and against the room’s back wall. He was able to talk but completely covered in blood as he was carried into an ambulance. Apparently, the taxi driver, 52 year old Terry L. Uding, had come to the Jupiter Hotel to pick up a fare but was waved off when she arrived, so then she accelerated into the hotel room. She had low blood sugar at the scene and likely suffered a diabetic medical emergency. When police arrived on the scene, she was lying in the parking lot with a heavy comforter over her. She was taken to a local hospital and has been treated and released. Police are still investigating the crash.
Toubin is now in stable condition (as of 1am Friday morning) and is undergoing a 2nd surgery today.
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