Taxi Driver Online

A DEVASTATED mother whose daughter’s dog was hit and killed by a speeding taxi has called for action.


Kylie Tunstill (23) watched in horror as two-year-old pet Tyson was mowed down by a private hire vehicle outside their home in Wheat Street, Padiham.

The chihuahua-collie cross was killed instantly and Kylie says her three-year-old girl Alicia Grace has been left heartbroken at the loss.

She claimed the taxi had been driving far too fast down the quiet street and the driver failed to stop after the incident.

The nursery nurse claimed friends in the town had suffered similar tragedies with family pets killed or injured and called for taxis to hit the brakes.

She said: “My three-year-old daughter and I are absolutely devastated and my daughter is finding it hard to understand that he is gone.

“My dog was crossing the road when a taxi came flying down a 20 mph street and ran over my dog and sped off without stopping. It threw him down the road and killed him instantly.

“There is a speed bump so the driver should have slowed down for that especially with the weather conditions. We are heartbroken that he is dead.”

Kylie said she called the police who managed to find the driver.

She said: “They returned and told me they can’t do anything even though my dog’s fur was on the tyre. The driver said he thought he had run over a plastic bag or bottle which is outrageous as obviously a dog and a carrier bag are two different sizes and weights. We have not even had an apology from the taxi firm.”

Since the tragedy, Kylie said she had received several texts from friends who claimed they had suffered similar incidents at the hands of “reckless” drivers.

“It is ridiculous how they can get away with this. I want drivers to be more careful. We don’t want this to happen to other people.”

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/loca ... _1_4099564

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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WTF did they pixelate the dogs face?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

To hide the tyre marks?

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

Don't let the bloody dog wander about the streets then dear. FFS

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I bet that bit of news cheered the 3 year old.

Some people would be better off with goldfish, at least then you can explain you have sent to fish to the fish doctor.......just dont let them see you coming out of the toilet before you tell them

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

So why let your dog cross a road with traffic driving down it if it has no road sense?



What does she want the driver charged with? Running over a suicidal dog?

Let's charge train drivers when someone jumps under their train.



Perhaps it's ridiculous how she can blame other people if she's letting her dog roam about the streets on its own.

Sorry if this appears harsh, but seems like the usual case of someone just doing as they please and then shifting the blame onto others when the inevitable happens.

Perhaps she's feeling a tad guilty, because if she had the dog under control then it might still be alive.

Let's hope it's a salutary lesson as regards how she looks after her kid and the responsibility she takes for her.

why did the dog cross the road......

to get run over by the nissan bluebird

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Seems to be the way of things nowadays.

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Typical emotive one-sided journalism, as the highlighted words and phrases show, even in the first four paragraphs.

Devastated.

Daughter's dog - makes it sound worse (but I hope the three-year-old wasn't left in charge of the dog)

Killed instantly

Heartbroken

Driving too fast (If an animal walks in front of a vehicle then it's always driving too fast, but that's not to say the driver could have prevented it)

Speeding taxi (How do they know? Were they doing speed checks on passing cars while the dog was left unattended)

Quiet street

Driver failed to stop (hardly surprising given that he's obviously going to be blamed irrespective of what happened)

as opposed to heartless phv b*stard

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

One of our drivers hit a dog the other week. The owner obviously blamed the driver. It did not matter to them that their dog was running accross the road at 11.30 at night. The dog was not injured in this case.

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Grandad,

That's the most mind-boggling thing about the whole episode

Must have been quite a small dog then, and thus difficult to see, and if the wheels hit it then unfortunately the speed probably isn't really that relevant.

Forgot to mention the most emotive and one-sided phrase out of the whole lot.

"Mow down" sounds like someone being shot in cold blood or similar