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Angry mob's outrage at Cambridge taxi driver after pensioner injured


An angry mob surrounded a taxi driver in Cambridge after an 88-year-old woman was badly injured attempting to avoid the vehicle as it rode a pavement.

The dangers of city taxis flooding ranks and parking on double-yellow lines came into sharp focus after the incident involving Vera Mowat.

She was visiting the city from her home near Kettering with her daughter and grandson and was about to cross St Andrew’s Street when a taxi mounted a pavement to park on double-yellow lines.

The pensioner said: “He wasn’t going to stop and almost knocked me over. I tried to get out of his way and fell over and came clattering down.

“The street was heaving with people who saw what happened and this angry crowd surrounded the taxi. They were absolutely furious and were shouting at him and my grandson was very angry. He was lucky he got away without someone taking serious action against him.”

The pensioner was helped across the road to John Lewis and the ambulance service was called.

She said: “The doctors said they had never seen bruising like it. My whole leg is purple and the lower side of me is extensively bruised. I can hardly walk and the pain is terrible.

“I am just so angry. I didn’t call the police, which is something I really regret now. I know Cambridge has a problem with taxis parking on double yellow lines. Something has to be done about it.”

The incident happened just after 1pm on Friday.

Police targeted taxis in St Andrew’s Street amid concerns cars queuing beyond the end of the rank pose a hazard to pedestrians and cyclists issuing 50 fines from February to April for causing an unnecessary obstruction.

David Wratten, a director and chairman of Cambridge City Licensed Taxis, which represents the trade, was appalled by the incident.

He said: “We certainly would not condone mounting the pavement. That is a very busy area and although it is difficult to pick up and drop of passengers it is very dangerous to mount the pavement. We would discourage our members, or anyone, to do that.”

A police spokesman said: “We were not made aware of this incident however, we will continue to crackdown on any motorist who ignores parking restrictions, especially if their actions put pedestrians or other road users in danger.”

source: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/An ... 063620.htm

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

I would love to read the drivers side of things.?
But I always thought ....if the rank is full you go to another rank, full is full

Congratulations
And DE-REGULATION
When I tell everyone that you’re in love
With me
Congratulations
And DE-REGULATION
I want the world to know I’m happy as can be.

Who could believe that I could be happy and
Contented
I used to think that DE-REGULATION hadn’t been
Invented
But that was in the bad old days before
I met you
When I let you
Walk into my heart

Congratulations...

I was afraid that maybe you thought you
Were above me
That I was only fooling myself to think you
Loved me
But then tonight you said you couldn’t live
Without me
That round about me
You wanted to stay

Congratulations...

Congratulations
And DE-REGULATION
I want the world to know I’m happy as can be
I want the world to know
I’m happy as can be

what come around go around an oversupply cause this an the licencing of dummy drivers who no no how drive properly


DE-REGULATION specialist answer me this

if you ticket sell for take that gig an venue hold 4000 people would you sell 16000 ticket?

If I could get away with it.

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Grandad,

What a strange analogy, and chock a block full of sh**.

However if you have another stadium next door, in our case a PH stadium, that holds 12,000, then your problem is solved.

I will ask you a question a bit more relevant to the issue of de-limitation.

What's the difference between 1000 cabs and 2000 drivers, and 2000 cabs and 2000 drivers, in relation to drivers takings?

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IDFIMH

That would depend on how many hours the 2000 cars are out and about compared to the 1000 cars. If you have drivers sharing cabs then the number of cab hours is limited to 168,000 per week where as 2000 cars then the number of cab hours could be anything up to 336,000 per week.

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Grandad,

the point is simple lady injured cos cab driven by muppet who forced to be muppet cos too many other muppets to compete with which is over supply which is caused by deregulation

the anology is taking people money without provision for a seat

So what excuse would you have used if the vehicle had been a PH?

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IDFIMH

ph dont rank up officialy

an there is now to many of them anyway since eu free trade allow one man to hold 300 licences and enslave 600 eastern europeans with lie of gold

I thought that the problem with the over ranking was the over supply of seats.

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Grandad,

nice touch

The point is he should not have been pulling up on a busy pavement anyway over ranking or not

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Every one keeps blaming deregulation and to many taxis drivers, even before deregulation most struggled to drive, as quoted by another member, still waiting to see a homeless taxi driver in this country.

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Live life with a smile

I wouldn't say homeless but I reckon a few are close if not have been but won't let on. I know a few who pressed the bankrupt button a few years ago when an area I worked in de regulated.

that because homeless cant get licence due to not having home silly

an so you know for next time i seen plenty of cabby kill himself due to no money to pay debts wood you like to see the irish figures for this