Taxi Driver Online

Another bizarre article. Daftie driver, no doubt about that - we all do things we shouldn't do behind the wheel, but why be so brazen about it and put safety and your job at risk?

On the other hand, the mum is making it sound like the collapse of Western civilization

Police response also a bit bizarre

There's a video on the website, but it doesn't show much more than the photo grab below, except it shows the driver certainly wasn't driving very quickly, but I'm guessing that was because of traffic.


School run taxi driver filmed 'texting at wheel' by 'terrified' teen

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/st ... ng-7791235

Burslem-based ABC Supreme says it has suspended the driver


Image: Stoke Sentinel

A taxi driver faces the sack after a teenage girl says she spotted him using his mobile phone while driving her to school. Emily Cotterill took out her own mobile and began recording as the driver - from ABC Supreme - took her to Created Academy in Hanley.

Now mum Samantha, from Chell Heath, has reported the incident to Staffordshire Police, and Burslem-based firm ABC Supreme has said the driver's apparent actions were 'totally unacceptable'.

It said it had suspended the driver and would be letting him go as soon as it had spoken to him about the incident.

Police said anyone with any information should get in touch with them.


Image: Stoke Sentinel

Mum Samantha, 34, said of the incident on Thursday: "Emily was scared that they might crash and I was frightened because I didn’t want anything to happen to her. They are saying he won’t be driving anymore.

“We’d never had any issues with them. He should know the road safety rules and you shouldn’t be on your phone.

“He should have been taking my daughter to and from school in a safe manner. She was shaken up about it and is nervous about getting back in a taxi.”

A Staffordshire Police spokesperson said: “At 11.05am on Thursday, November 3, we received reports of dangerous driving in Stoke-on-Trent. A man was reported to have been seen using his mobile phone while driving in the Chell Heath area."

An ABC Supreme spokesman said: “This driver will be suspended from the company until I’ve spoken to him. At which point he will be asked to leave, this is totally unacceptable.”

Police said anyone with information should call them on 101, quoting incident number 238 of November 3, or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Were you there? Or maybe the daughter was busy texting her at the same time as filming the driver?


Slightly bizarre way to put it as well. If they're contacting him to suspend him, why not just tell him then that he's off the system rather than making a meal of it? A tad PR posturing going on, perhaps


What more evidence are they expecting to get? The mother feeling frightened because she somehow had a live feed to what was going on, maybe?

Anyway, a shedload of comments on the Sentinel's website, and the story has been rehashed on MEN's site, and no doubt a few others.

But some of the commenters likewise portraying the driver as evil incarnate. One or two suggesting the girl might have been better simply asking the driver to stop rather than filming for social media and a mention in the press. Others wondering what police are huffing and puffing about.