Taxi Driver Online

Writing on behalf of a mate who is a private hire cab driver. Early Saturday morning he and his two passengers were heading to their destination. Headed to the first roundabout, slowing down from doing 30mph, left at the first exit onto a 50 yard straight road that leads to another roundabout, doing less than 15mph to manoeuvre round to the second exit, checking ahead for potential traffic that may be exiting from the left was suddenly startled by a thud, then another thud that resulted in the windscreen being hit and smashed. It is now apparent that a young male has been , for whatever reason been standing behind overgrown bushes on the roundabout (went back today in daylight, and it would have been impossible to see anybody standing there because of the combination of greenery and the directional chevron signs on top of the hedges) this guy was not seen by driver or passengers and appears to have stepped off the roundabout and collided with the right hand side of the car and thrown into the air. Car was stopped all 3 occupants got out and attended the guy with assistance from the ambulance operator on the phone. The guy on the ground was reeking of drink. Statements were given to the police, all confirming that nothing could have been done to prevent the collision as the guy stepped out of a darkened roundabout straight into the road / car; driver was cleared of being intoxicated or have taken any drugs. He was however told that his car would be impounded and stored as evidence. He now has no vehicle in order to continue his livelihood over a possible busy bank holiday nor can he make plans for the foreseeable future because the police will not put a time frame on the investigation. He may have access to a 'pool' car @£150 per week, but also has to pay the HP on the car he uses as a cab. Not only losing his income for at least this week he has been told that the drunken guy has the option of possible taking the matter to a civil court to sue if he so wishes. So as a hardworking driver, my mate has lost an income, lost his car, possible increase in insurance premiums, possibly being sued within 3 years;; whereby this drunken chancer can walk away scot free with a pocketful of compensation.

Life can be a [edited by admin] sometimes

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I had a similar situation that took 15 months to resolve in my favour (although they did not take my cab off of me ).

Your mate also stands a very big chance that his insurance company will try to hold him ( at least partly responsble) for not having eyes in the back of his head........just so that they have an excuse to reduce his " No Claims Bonus" by around 2/3 years.

He needs to get as much evidence as he possibly can ( I know that is stating the obvious - unfortunately he will need it).

His insurance company may also send an investigator to his house to take a statement! Trust me when I say that they are not your mate as they would like to portray. They are there to ask (leading ) questions that may seem innocent at the time, the bottom line being is that they are trying to find a small chink of evidence that gives the Insurance company a chance to up your premium.

If the above should happen, then your mate should not be lulled into giving an answer on any question that he is not sure of - also give deep thought as to what is behind the questions. In reality they are there to try and trip you up......smiling assassins good luck, he will need it.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

I have full rental car cover (fault or non-fault), excess cover, loss of earnings cover and even a BBQ cover

and a dash cm


then again I dont work much

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

I agree with John. Also you say that the "victim" has the option of suing through the civil courts. Well guess what, so does your mate. He needs to keep an accurate account of his expenditure and losses and also submit a claim through the civil courts, probably the small claims court.

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Grandad,

I do appreciate your feedback.

It is difficult to discuss the matter with my mate as he is still in shock and the pedestrian is still in hospital and his condition although stable has not been updated since Saturday. Although I have empathy with the pedestrian I am still shocked at how, as a driver my mate is expected to have followed the highway code and to nanny members of the public who are too drunk to take responsibility for their own actions.

Not a nice situation.

Maybe all of the after-stuff, for want of a better expression, could have been sorted with a decent two camera system CCTV.

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IDFIMH

Were this Driver in a UNION they would be advising HIM on how to deal with this FREE OF CHARGE of course and no doubt considering suing the Drunk for his the Drivers loss of earnings ........................simple really .....................but Cab Drivers brain dead most of emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Given the Drunk has assets a House car etc hes very vulnerable hammer the pi$$ edd .............his actions caused the Driver a pecuniary loss .......................HAMMER HIM FFS common sense really

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Free of Charge? Are Union Dues free?

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Chris The Fish

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your alternative ............oh yes find a charity to pay his mortgage

He wont pay the legal fees, idiot just another benefit of membership. mind when the Union win the case they will recover their costs very likely ORGANISE EDUCATE AGITATE

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The day of the Unions is long past, there was a need, they filled the need, now there is no longer a need.

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Chris The Fish

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AS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED IN THIS CASE ..........................AND MAYBE BY THE EARNINGS HOURS SAFETY RECORD OF THE HACK AND PH INDUSTRY'S .............................................REALLY

YOU TRYING TO BE WANNA MK2

FREE LEGAL REPRESENTATION A BENEFIT OF UNION MEMBERSHIP COULD SAVE THIS GUY HIS HOME FAMILY AND LIVLIHOOD ........NOT WORTH HAVING

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TT you have mentioned that one on numerous occasions as if is a given! sorry mate but that is absolute b*ll*%ks. It is never free as the Union would have to pick up the "Bill", and when it comes to spending money they will put any old excuse forward for not going down the legal route.

The Unions are where they are because they put themselves there - they did NOT look after their members, they stood by whilst hundreds of thousands of jobs were taken away from their members to third world countries. One or two are worthy of being called Unions and only because they represent mostly people who live in the 5th part of the U.K union i.e London.

Do you not think that workers realise they need representation ? of course they do, but only in the true sense and meaning of 30 years ago when Unionism was for the working man, and not the trouts at the top of the Union tree. I would not be surprised in the least to find out that the Unions (just like the Labour party) are infiltrated with out and out Conservatives! yep that is right, government people (infiltration) purporting to be Union people - this country is rancid with corruption.

Take a look at the drop of Union membership from its hay day to what it is now! Are you telling me that millions are wrong and only TT is right?

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

It appears to me that this Driver would have been in a much better situation with Union membership its certainly a case I WOULD HAVE PER-SUED any way its all of no account he wasnt isnt so hes in the poop


Its for others to Drivers to consider their options, at least with this debate theyve been made aware by ME of an option no-one else suggested, i wish him LUCK he will need it

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Front facing camera worth £39.99 would've sorted it all out.