Fatal Christmas: a taxi driver felt “animals in his body”, desperately asked for help and ended up crashing into a palm tree

In the early morning of Christmasa fatal accident took the life of a taxi driver in the Mexico City. The middle-aged man was driving his vehicle in the company of his dog. But before the incident – which left the taxi destroyed – the deceased was involved in a desperate street scene.

For almost a minute the driver could be seen outside the car on a street in the Mexican capital, screaming with words of pain and superficially hitting his body. He was bare-chested and visibly desperate, as could be seen in images recorded by another motorist.

That was the prelude to a gloomy start to Christmas. Some witnesses revealed the last words of the victim, documented by local media. These unleashed different opinions about the state of the deceased person.

While on social networks they accused him of having been under the influence of some type of drug, from the media NMore related their behavior to the symptoms of Ekbom syndrome. This is a psychiatric disorder in which the person hallucinates that their body is infested with parasites.

The dramatic scene witnessed by police patrols

The most curious thing about that situation was the two police patrols located a few steps from the person outside of themselves. In the forty seconds of the video, the man, who He seems to want to get something off his cheststay alone. Even a car just passes by him, on a cobblestone street that, despite it being daytime, had its lights on.

The driver said he felt «animals» in his body. Photo: Capture

The story became even more shocking when the accounts of some witnesses became known. Before the mishap that caused his death, the taxi driver would have stopped briefly to ask for helppointing out that “I felt animals in my body,” he reported The Herald of Mexico.

How was the taxi driver’s accident in CDMX?

This Thursday December 25, 2025the car with license plate A-8371-C ended up crashing on Calzada San Antonio Abad, located in the mayor’s office of Cuauhtémoc. According to the first reports, the taxi circulated near the intersection with José T. Cuéllar, in the Obrera neighborhood.

That’s when the driver lost control and crashed. violently hit a palm treehe detailed TVAzteca.

The strong crash caused the driver to be ejected from the vehicle. He lost his life immediatelyas confirmed by emergency services when they arrived at the scene. The police surrounded the accident site, awaiting the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City. This body is in charge of initiating the investigation.

For this purpose, the speeding which the driver would have incurred, who lost control of the steering wheel and ended up overturning.

A dog was on board the taxi. Photo: Capture

For their part, traffic personnel removed the vehicle with the front destroyed. It was not without before rescue the animal who was going up and who fortunately survived the terrible blow.

The rescue of the dog that was in the accident car

The little dog that was traveling in the car He was trapped between the bars of one of the windows. Firefighters proceeded to rescue him and he was then taken to a veterinary care center for examination.

The operation was carried out on Heroic Fire Department of Mexico Citywho was in charge of the maneuvers that freed the animal. Although a few steps from the man’s fateful end, such an image moved the witnesses of the crash in the middle of Christmas morning.