Taxi Driver Online

you fekking dopes fekked it all up in 1961 many strikes established the 40 hr week successive generations of snivelling gob [edited by admin] sycophants motivated by greed and self interest achieved the present situation well done kkunts

i hope its members of your family's who drive these hours that are killed by exhausted greedy Cab Driving scum if you drive sensible hours

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Self employed drivers of HGV's are bound by driver hours, as you well know, so lets include ALL commercial (i.e. non-private) drivers in UK driver hour regs.....

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Car crash cabbie appeals for his licence back



A TAXI driver stripped of his cab licence after causing a crash which left a four-year-old girl fighting for her life is appealing against that ban.

Amir Azad’s taxi licence was revoked by South Tyneside Council last month after he admitted a careless driving charge resulting from a five- car pile-up which left little Jessica Bootes with serious head injuries.

Azad’s Peugeot ploughed into the back of Chris Bootes and Lisa Orrock’s family car while it was stopped at traffic lights on the A194, near the Lindisfarne roundabout in Jarrow, on Tuesday, March 4.

Despite being strapped into a booster seat in the rear of her parents’ Volkswagen Polo, Jessica was left with one side of her skull missing, paralysis down the right side of her body and a loss of speech after her face smashed into the front passenger seat during the crash.

She was taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary and spent 11 days in an induced coma.

The youngster is still receiving regular treatment at the hospital four months later.

Azad was initially arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after the crash but was eventually charged with driving without due care and attention.

He admitted that charge at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in June and was fined £250 and given six penalty points on his licence.

After the case, council chiefs revoked his licence to drive a taxi in the borough, but he was given 21 days to appeal against that decision, an option he has now taken up.

Jessica’s mum Lisa, 31, of Centenary Avenue, Harton, South Shields, said: “I am disappointed but not entirely surprised that he has chosen to appeal, given the sheer lack of compassion that he has shown for Jessica’s situation.

“We were bracing ourselves for it. Any other decent human being would have taken it on the chin and not appealed and moved onto a new career. He should have felt that he had gotten away lightly and accepted that as a small punishment for what he did to my daughter.”

A council spokeswoman said: “We are aware that an appeal has been made against the decision to revoke Mr Azad’s licence.

“The appeal has been lodged directly with the magistrates’ court.”

Azad, 35, of Lilac Avenue, South Shields, was working for South Tyneside firm Dial-A-Cab at the time of the accident.

The company, based in Laygate, South Shields, sacked him immediately after the accident.

No date for the appeal hearing has yet been set.

Jessica is now getting ready to start at Bamburgh School in South Shields in September.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crim ... -1-6737334

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I REPEAT THE ABOVE

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Be lucky if it's this year.

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IDFIMH

But he can keep working whilst awaiting the appeal, if he can find an Operator who wants some bad publicity.

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Chris The Fish

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Not if the council can show he is a danger, and his conviction would be the first bit of evidence.

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IDFIMH

Because of the fact that I am in Plymouth, I forgot all the great unwashed in 76 Act areas can be suspended whilst awaiting appeal.

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Chris The Fish

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PEOPLES REPUBLIC

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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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Taxi driver who left girl fighting for her life begins battle to get licence back



A TAXI driver yesterday began an appeal to get his operator’s licence back after he left a four-year-old girl disabled in a car crash.

Amir Azad caused a five-car pile-up when he smashed into the back of a Volkswagen Polo, which was stopped at traffic lights on the A194 Leam Lane, near the Lindisfarne Roundabout, in Jarrow, in March.

The car was owned by Lisa Orrock and Chris Bootes, whose daughter, Jessica Bootes, was left with the left side of her skull missing, paralysis down the right side of her body and a loss of speech after the crash, as her face had smashed into the front passenger seat.

She was taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary, and spent 11 days in an induced coma.

Azad, of Taylor Street, South Shields, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after the crash, but was eventually charged with driving without due care and attention.

The 35-year-old admitted the charge at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court and was given a £250 fine and six penalty points on his licence.

In June, South Tyneside Council revoked Azad’s taxi licence.

Yesterday, he arrived at and left court, hiding his face behind an umbrella, as he began his appeal against the decision.

Geoffrey Forrester, for Azad, asked that the council’s solicitor, Debbie Lloyd, provide “details of all action taken against all existing taxi drivers for careless driving convictions within the last three years”.

Mr Forrester asked for the information to be provided to him within seven days.

A date was then set for the hearing, which will go ahead at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on October 14.

The family, from Centenary Avenue, Harton, South Shields, had been going to McDonald’s restaurant when the collision happened at about 6.30pm on March 4.

At Azad’s criminal court case in June, it was said that others caught up in the crash offered assistance to Jessica, but the court heard that, when approached by Jessica’s parents, Azad told them “calm down, accidents happen” before asking if they had insurance.

In a victim statement read out in court, Mr Bootes said: “What happened will stay with me forever. It has hit me so hard. It eats away at me. I try to get my head around what happened.

“Should we have gone a different route or left sooner?

“We are the victims – we had not done anything wrong.

“The lack of remorse from the driver stays with me. I will never forgive this man.

“Jessica has to start her life all over again while he goes on living his.”

Ms Orrock’s victim statement continued: “Standing there, and not being able to help Jessica was horrific and will stay with me forever.

“How a split second can change a family’s lives – it baffles me. Our lives changed but not half as much as it has for our little girl. How do you explain that to her?”

Mr Forrester, defending, said Azad has been driving for 17 years and was remorseful.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crim ... -1-6809576

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

What would they have liked him to do? Your insurance company tell you not to admit liability and to get the other party's insurance details.

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Grandad,

stopped the murderer reoffending though

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Cabbie who smashed into girl fails in bid to get taxi licence back


MAGISTRATES have upheld a council decision to ban a South Tyneside taxi driver whose careless driving left a little girl partially paralysed.

Amir Azad’s Hackney Carriage and private hire licence were revoked by South Tyneside Council after he admitted a careless driving charge which resulted from a five-car pile-up which left five-year-old Jessica Bootes with serious head injuries.

Azad’s Peugeot crashed into the back of Chris Bootes and Lisa Orrock’s family car while it was stopped at traffic lights on the A194, near the Lindisfarne roundabout in Jarrow, on Tuesday, March 4.

Their daughter Jessica was left with one side of her skull missing, paralysis down the right side of her body and a loss of speech after her face smashed into the front passenger seat during the crash.

She was taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary and spent 11 days in an induced coma.

Earlier this year, Iranian-born Mr Azad, 35, of Lilac Avenue, Cleadon Park, South Shields, pleaded guilty to careless driving at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court and was fined £250 with six points added to his licence.

Yesterday at the same court, magistrates threw out his bid against the council’s decision to revoke his licence.

‘Justice has been done’ say South Shields crash girl’s family

Chairman of the bench Harry Metcalfe described the local authority’s decision as “reasonable in all circumstances”.

He added: “Mr Azad has not been banned from driving but has had his taxi licence revoked.

“He was responsible for the safety of his passengers as well as the public and other road users and it is paramount that he acts responsibly at all times.

“We feel that the decision reached by the local authority was reasonable in all circumstances. The bench is of the opinion that Mr Azad is not a fit and proper person to hold a Hackney carriage and private hire vehicle licence.”

Geoffrey Forrester, defending Azad, had argued that the council’s licensing department had not adhered to its own protocol by revoking his client’s licence.

That states a taxi driver found guilty of a isolated incident was “likely to get a warning”.

Mr Azad was also not offered an individual assessment of his driving before his licence was removed – as is outlined in the council’s policy.

Mr Forrester said: “They chose not to even offer him an assessment and yet someone found guilty of speeding could be offered it.”

Jeff Young, licensing manager with South Tyneside Council, said Mr Azad’s licence was revoked because of the effect the accident had caused.

He added: “We took into account that the accident was a collision of five vehicles, caused by Mr Azad, and, obviously, the injury of a child.

“Taxi drivers are expected to set an example. They are professional drivers and it is our responsibility that the public is safe when being driven around in taxis on borough roads.”

source: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crim ... -1-6896317

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

Once again the word "Accident" seems to have sailed on by. I do not condone in anyway what has happened......but did he do it on purpose? has he done it before? is he likely to do it again? They are bog standard questions that would be asked if he were a hardened criminal before sentencing.

It was in all senses of the word an "Accident", nothing criminal was intended i.e not done on purpose

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

The word accident was only used by the person at the council. The police and the courts do not use the word accident any more. The word is collision and it means that someone is to blame.

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Grandad,