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Police car and taxi involved in horrifying crash in Northgate, Crawley

https://www.crawleynews24.co.uk/police- ... e-crawley/

Northgate Avenue has been closed from the Sandman roundabout into town and traffic to the roundabout from the road is being diverted down Woodfield Road


Image: CrawleyNews24

A very nasty accident that appears to be between a Police car and a taxi people carrier has closed Northgate Road.

A police officer was trapped in her car while emergency services arrived to attend to her.

Unconfirmed reports are that the taxi driver was also trapped and appeared to be rescued by the fire service before being transported onto a waiting ambulance.


Image: CrawleyNews24

Both the taxi and the police car have significant damage to the front side of each vehicle.

It has now been confirmed that there were no passengers onboard, just a passenger assistant.

The driver and his assistant had dropped off at a school and were returning back home.


A man thought to be the taxi driver is stretchered away to an ambulance (Image: CrawleyNews24)

A statement from the police is imminent.

The 'taxi' seems to be some kind of specialist WAV provider.

I'm assuming it's plated as a PHV (with roofsign).

http://libertei-mobility.co.uk/

Is it me or does that look like the police car was coming from an angle perhaps overtaking ?

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

The link brings details of this operation,but it would appear that you can be misled by the information provided,we can supply a taxi to carry 3 wheelchairs + 6 passengers if required.

"We are a family run business that specialises in supplying wheelchair accessible taxis with the capacity to carry between one to three wheelchairs on a single journey, plus up to 6 additional passengers."

I assumed from that that they provide a range of different vehicles. At a rough guess I'd say the vehicle in the photos isn't capable of carrying three wheelchairs and six passengers.

I was more worried about the wording on the roofsign - ADVANCE*D* BOOKINGS ONLY

But at least they've got the correct wording on the door, as can be seen from this other photo:

ADVANCE BOOKINGS ONLY

Crawley PHV spec:


35. Each private hire vehicle shall display at all times a non-illuminated yellow roof sign
approved by the Council unless authorisation has been approved for roof signs to be a
different colours.

36. A proprietor must not alter the sign without first applying for and obtaining
permission from the Council to do so.

37. The roof light must comply with the criteria below.

38. be ‘point’ type design

39. measure 46cm in width x 16cm in length x 14cm in height.

40. all letters and numbers displayed must be solid black in colour and in Flute B font

41. the words ‘ADVANCE BOOKINGS ONLY’ must be displayed on the front of the
sign at the top in letters not less than 2.5cm in height.

42. the company name must be displayed underneath in letters not less than 5cm in
height.

43. the rear of the sign should display only the word ‘CRAWLEY’ in letters not less than
2.5cm in height and underneath, the telephone number of the company or private hire
operator through whom the vehicle can be booked, displayed in numbers not less than
5cm in height.

44. the sign shall not include the words ‘hire’, ‘cab’, ‘taxi’, ‘hackney’ or any other word
which would lead a person to believe that the vehicle is a hackney carriage (even if
these words form part of the company name) or any other words or numbers except
those set out above.

The sign actually says ADVANCED, so is in breach of the spec