MULTI-millionaire Mark Langford has been killed in a car crash in Spain. The former boss of The Accident Group – TAG - has died following an accident on the main A7 motorway close to the Spanish coastal resort of Marbella yesterday afternoon.
It is understood that a rental car he was driving swerved off the road and crashed shortly after 3.30pm.
Early reports suggest that Mr Langford suffered head injuries and died in a hospital some four hours later.
The 42-year-old has spent nearly all of his time at a holiday home near the town since he left the country after his company – TAG folded with the loss of 2,700 jobs in May 2003 .
The businessman rose to notoriety after receivers sacked almost all of his work force by text message while Langford was pictured later sipping champagne on board a yacht on the Costa Del Sol.
A spokesman for Marbella police confirmed this morning that 43-year-old Mark Campion Langford had died in hospital following an accident yesterday afternoon. The spokesman said he was alone in the car.
Depression
Langford had been suffering from depression recently and had always maintained that he wasn’t the evil boss that he had been made out to be. It is believed he was keen to try and set the record straight by telling his side of the story.
TUC spokesman Alec McFadden, who has representing workers sacked from Langford’s firm in legal action against him, said: “It’s always sad when somebody dies. I think he had started to realise that he would have to answer for the things he had done in his life. The court cases that were to be heard for him to answer some of the allegations have obviously had an effect on him.”
Langford’s solicitor had an Inland Revenue bankruptcy hearing against him adjourned last month saying that the tycoon was suffering from depression.
Tax inspectors served a £4m writ on Langford in February as he celebrated his daughter’s birthday aboard their yacht.
A total of 106 people died on the roads of Spain over the Holy Week break, with the traffic authority announcing the final number this morning. Last year saw a total of 110 deaths at this time, but the authorities are disappointed that the introduction of the points driving licence is appearing to have an ever decreasing effect on the numbers.
The traffic authority had also announced a whole new range of radar speed traps across the country. Traffic Chief Pepe Navarro admitted this morning that this year’s campaign had failed. The deaths came in 84 fatal accidents in total between 3pm on the Friday before Holy Week up to midnight last night, and there were also 62 serious injuries and 37 lesser injuries.
Read more about the background to Mark Langford and TAG via the links on the right of this page.
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X Tag employee, Bolton (10/04/2007 at 16:15)
Pam (10/04/2007 at 18:20)
I really dont wish to speak ill of the dead. However, it only makes me 100% sure of Karma... what goes around, comes around.
An Ex TAGer, who believes in fate and whose life would not be the same had the sorry situation not happened... no grudges - just pity for the innocents.
Stuart Lucas (10/04/2007 at 19:18)
Karma (10/04/2007 at 21:20)
Andrew, Manchester (10/04/2007 at 22:05)
People must treat others, how they would expect to be treated.
X Tag employee, Bolton (11/04/2007 at 12:36)
L, Online (11/04/2007 at 13:01)
Simon, ex TAG (11/04/2007 at 15:33)
He didnt for anyone else. i say that not just as one of many who suffered, but as one who worked closely with him and saw first hand how he revelled in being above-the-law and squashing people along the way.
A sad, drepressed man he wasnt. Getting away with all he did in the past lead him to believe that he would always get away with anything, no matter how bleak the situation looked.
He was a terrible driver, as one family learned to their cost.
For those who paint the picture of a depressed man and what that suggests - it should be noted that nobody has ever killed themselves by smashing their car sideways on.
A Scott, Warrington (11/04/2007 at 21:49)