Tuesday 23 August 2022 01:16 PM Driver who crashed onto Park Royal tracks is jewellery shop manager whose leg ... trends now

The driver of the 'out of control' Range Rover involved in the horrific crash on the A40 can be named as 24-year-old Rida Al Mousawi and he has since had his leg amputated after the incident, MailOnline can reveal.

The Iraqi-born jewellery store manager had had only recently bought the super-charged 4x4 when it careered off the road at up to 120mph at 3.48am on Monday morning, smashed into a Tesla charging station and slamming into a parked Tesla where a 56-year-old man was sat inside. He sustained non-life threatening injuries. 

The Range Rover was then launched over the public footpath, and the wrecked SUV landed on the tracks of London Underground tube station Park Royal, which is still part closed today while they fix platform damage, affecting the Piccadilly line's eastbound service towards central London.

Inside the destroyed vehicle was a 33-year-old mother of a six-year-old, who died at the scene, the driver, Rida Al Mousawi, 24, who has had his leg amputated and remains in critical condition at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, and another female passenger, 26, who was treated for non-life threatening injuries. 

A man in his 50s who was sat in his Tesla car at a charging station was also injured in the horrific high-speed crash captured on a dashcam by Uber driver Naswaf Ali.

Al Mousawi was driving along the A40 Western Avenue after leaving a late-night shisha restaurant in Park Royal called the Wish Lounge. His friends told MailOnline the two women in the car had met the 24-year-old at the bar and were being driven home in the early hours of the morning.

Al Mousawi ran the Hiba Jewellery store on London's Edgware Road where he was well known among other shopkeepers for his love of cars.

One said: 'He had only recently bought the Range Rover trading in his Mercedes. The car was the most powerful version, the SVR. He told me he had got rid of the Mercedes and got the Range Rover. We did not see it as he parked it in an underground car park.

'He is a great guy and we all knew him as he had quite an active social life. He was single.'

The large Iraqi community who work in restaurants, bakeries and money exchange shops on the Edgware Road were all aware that Al Mousawi had been involved in the A40 crash. The black metal shutters at the jewellery store remained closed.

'It is just terrible, and we knew something was wrong when he did not come to open the store,' said a neighbouring storekeeper.

'We heard he was involved in the crash and in a very bad way. We are all hoping he survives as he is such a nice young man.'

Another jeweller added: 'He is a very nice person. We would always say hello and he was friendly. Everyone around here knows about the A40 crash. When you look at the photos of the car it is a miracle that he is alive.'

Hours after the crash – which closed the west bound lanes of the A40 and Piccadilly Line from Acton Town to Uxbridge - Al Mousawi's social media accounts were taken down.

Friends said he has undergone an operation to have one of his legs amputated and also has a head injury. 

Al Mousawi, who was known to his close friends as 'Kazim' was born in Basra, Iraq. He has an older brother and sister and a younger sister, and his 54-year-old father Mahdi is listed on Companies House as the owner of the Hiba Jewellery.

A friend said: 'The Wish lounge is well known hang out place for young Iraqi men. It has shisha pipes and opens late and stays open until the early hours of the morning.

'They had a special event at the weekend and Kazim was there. He was there most of the night with his friends. He has a very active social life and is out all the time at weekends.'

Local resident Katee Moore, 30, who lives in Baronet House adjacent to the crash site, reported that she was awoken a few hours before the crash by loud engine noises from a group of cars.

'About 2am I was woken up by the noise of cars going on for about an hour and a half. There was a Range Rover parked up watching their friend in a BMW spinning around the roundabout,' she told the BBC.

'Later on we heard this horrendous bang and then all of a sudden police were there. A lot of us went to put flowers down as apparently she's a young mother with a six-year-old child.' 

An Uber driver who witnessed the A40 crash has told how he 'could have died' after he initially planned to park next to the fellow driver who was injured in the incident. 

Nawaf Ali, 40, had just parked his own Tesla when the incident happened. He told MailOnline: 'I could have died last night, and my kids would not have a father.'

The horrifying moment the Range Rover slams through metal railings was captured by a remote camera on Mr Ali's Tesla, showing it cause significant damage to a number of charging points.

He said: 'I had just parked up and went across to a white Tesla as I recognised the driver as someone who was also an Uber driver. We exchanged a few words, and I walked back to my car. I wanted to make sure it was charging ok.

'Suddenly there was a noise like an aircraft crashing. It was so loud. I ducked my head down and this car came flying over the metal barrier. The noise was incredible, but then it was silent.

'I looked around but could not see where the other car went. There was just silence. At the time I had no idea where it had ended up.

'Where I was standing was where the car came over the barrier. If I had been standing a few feet away then I would have been hit. I am still shaking thinking about it.

'The other car did not hit the Tesla as it was much higher coming through the railings and was in mid air.

'It was like something out of a horror movie, only much worse. I have never seen anything like it.

'It was like a horror movie, but only much worse. I do not want to see anything like that ever again.

'I was meant to get some sleep, but I can't get the image of that girl out of my mind. I had to leave my car at the scene and am waiting for the police to tell me when I can go back to collect it. They also want to take another statement.

'I always used the A40 charging station, but I will never use it again. I just can't face going back there.'

Mr Ali had parked his Tesla at the charging station off the A40 Western Avenue after returning from dropping a fare off in Oxford having driven from Central London.

He decided on the spur of the moment to call in at the Tesla garage next to Park Royal station to get an hour's charge for his electric vehicle before returning to the home in Harrow, West London, he shares with his children aged 16 and 17.

He said he often used the charging base outside a Tesla showroom as it only takes an hour and is one of the fastest places closest to his home.

Father of two Nawaf said he was asked to 'live stream' the scene to ambulance control before paramedics arrived.

He said: 'There was a lot of debris all over the place. I was walking around, then I saw the body of the young woman. It was awful. I did not see her at first and wasn't sure it was a body. It was only when I got closer that I could make her out.

'When I saw that I just ran back to my car. It was too much. I could not stand to look at it. It was like

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