DAMN! CASH CAB DRIVER HITS & KILLS AN OLD MAN!

A driver for the hit TV quiz show "Cash Cab" struck and killed a 61-year-old man in Canada just before midnight on Saturday.

Cops in Vancouver said the unidentified man died of injuries after he was run down by the phony cab in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood.

Authorities said the man lived in Surrey, B.C., but didn't give his name.

The show had finished filming for the night and a producer was driving the mock yellow cab back to a storage area when the accident occurred, the show's production company, Castlewood Productions Inc., told The Vancouver Sun.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and his family. My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who is shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team," the company's president, Andrew Burnstein, told The Sun.

No charges have been filed but the incident remains under investigation, Vancouver police said.

In the TV show, which airs on Discovery Channel, unsuspecting passengers who hail the taxi are quizzed during the ride to their destination for a chance to win money.

In the Canadian version of the show, Comedian Adam Growe is the show's host and driver.

A spokeswoman for the Yellow Cab taxi company said they had given the show permission to use their logo, but that the cab wasn't one of theirs.

"It wasn't one of our drivers, it wasn't one of our taxis," Yellow Cab GM Carolyn Bauer told the Sun.

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