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Cabbies in Accrington's get safety cheer from police

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... om-police/

TAXI drivers in Hyndburn have been praised by police after a joint safety crackdown in Accrington.

Neighbourhood police teamed up with Hyndburn Council's taxi enforcement office and the Vehicle Operator and Safety Agency for Operation Carriage.

Thirty-eight cabs were pulled over during a round of inspections, and tested for roadworthiness and legal compliance, to check private hire cars and hackney cabs were being kept properly.

Police say two immediate prohibition notices and one delayed prohibition ticket, during the operation.

A Hyndburn Police spokesman said: "In general the vehicles were of a higher standard than expected."

Last year a similar crackdown saw just 20 per cent of cabs pulled were up to standards.

Not much to go on here, but that means 80% failed the spot-check last year?

This year only three were given notices out of 38 pulled over, so that's 8% failed. So only 20% passed last year, but 92% passed this year?

Doesn't ring true somehow, not just in terms of the turnaround, but an 80% fail rate last year doesn't sound realistic either.

Of course, that's not to say it didn't happen, but somehow I suspect the figures supplied aren't comparing like-with-like.

(Seem to recall similar articles from here in the last couple of years, but can't find anything relevant. Maybe it was somewhere else in the Lancashire neck of the woods.)

It all depends on why those 80% that failed were stopped.

If they were targeted then that number wouldn't surprise me, if it was random then it simply couldn't go from 80% to 8% in that short a period.

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