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Driver of unfit taxi has licence revoked

A HACKNEY carriage driver has had his licence revoked due to a "prolonged history of bald tyres".

Vale taxi driver John Lewis had his Hackney Carriage and Private Hire drivers licences revoked at Cardiff Magistrates court. The court told Lewis that he was "not a fit and proper person" to hold a vehicles licence.

During his appeal at Cardiff Magistrates Court, it was emphasised how driver Lewis’s vehicle had a long history of being driven with bald tyres.

Lewis also accepted that he had told the Vale of Glamorgan Licensing Committee on May 12 that it did not matter that the tyres were under the legal limit as it “was only a hair’s breath."

He had presented his private hire vehicle for testing at the Council depot with both front tyres so devoid of rubber the reinforcement ply was showing.

The magistrates, after looking at the vehicles records of maintenance over the past two years, decided on the balance of probabilities that Mr Lewis was not fir to hold a licence.

Leader of the Vale of Glamorgan council Neil Moore, Leader of the Council, said: “We expect the highest standards both from our drivers and from their vehicles.

"Our officers continue to work proactively across the Vale to maintain these standards in order to keep the community safe. This is another example of our licensing officers doing their job and ensuring that all our citizens have safe and reliable taxis and Hackney carriages in which to travel.”

source: http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/n ... d/?ref=rss

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IDFIMH

how did he get a license in the first place more to the point how did he get away without seriously injuring or killing anyone

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