Taxi Driver Online

Don't think the Dundee station rank is as chaotic as some of ours, but if it's even remotely like ours then it's just an accident like this waiting to happen

(I assume he dropped near the rank at the drop/pick up area at the back of the rank. I'd guess it gets quite chaotic at times.)

But, I mean, the likes of our ranks often mean reversing into spaces and having to watch out for students walking across the road with their head in a phone, and who think they have right of way absolutely everywhere

And guess who would get the blame if something happened?


Taxi driver ran into blind woman after dropping her at Dundee railway station

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/co ... y-station/

The 62-year-old woman was left with broken bones as a result of being struck by Nadheem Akhtar.



A taxi driver reversed into a blind woman seconds after dropping her off at Dundee railway station.

The 62-year-old woman was left with broken bones as a result of being struck by Nadheem Akhtar on July 11 2024.

CCTV captured the incident and the video was shown to Dundee Sheriff Court.

Fiscal depute Angie Clay said: “This occurred at the back of the train station.

“The accused is employed as a taxi driver.

“The complainer is registered blind and utilises walking sticks.”

It was revealed she suffered a broken arm and elbow as a result of being struck by Akhtar’s vehicle.

On the day he was due to stand trial, the first offender instead pled guilty to causing the woman to suffer injury through careless driving.

The 41-year-old failed to keep a proper lookout and reversed his vehicle “without due consideration” for pedestrians, before knocking the woman to the ground.

Footage played to the court showed Akhtar immediately stopped his vehicle and came to the woman’s aid.

“The lady had paused and Mr Akhtar assumed she had walked to the pavement,” defence solicitor Anika Jethwa said.

“He should have checked properly and he didn’t.”

Ms Jethwa said Akhtar lost his job at “the very outset” and has been working as a delivery driver since.

She added: “He is here on an EU settlement visa and that might also be in jeopardy.

“He has been extremely worried and concerned about the outcome of these proceedings.

“It’s going to have extremely far-reaching consequences for him and his family.”

Sheriff George Way disqualified Akhtar, of Dundee, for 12 months and ordered him to pay £500 in compensation.

The rank area isn't in the Courier's photo, and I'm assuming the passenger above wasn't dropped there.

But that's another one that annoys me - it's been constructed in recent history, but instead of insetting the bus stop they left it blocking one lane of a busy two-lane carriageway, so cars often come round in the lane with the bus stop in it, then try to get into the other lane when there's a bus sitting there.

Therefore another accident waiting to happen, and that was obvious from the kick off. In fact there was actually an article in the Courier about it once upon a time, and the council just said that they needed all those acres of empty space in front of the station hotel, so couldn't use a wee bit of it for a proper bus bay

'High quality public realm', or something like that


Dundonian passengers raise concerns about road safety at station bus stop

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/du ... -bus-stop/

Dundonians catching buses to and from the city railway station have raised safety concerns about the lack of a bus bay outside the terminal.

Another one when some may question why this needed to go to court.

The driver didn't do a runner; he got out of his cab and assisted the lady straight away.

The driver would have been insured; therefore the lady would have got the compensation she deserved from his insurance company.

Now we have an unemployed person being funded by the taxpayer.

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