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Scottish taxi driver was over the alcohol limit in Settle bypass crash

A TAXI driver from Glasgow who crashed his hired car in snow on the A65 Settle bypass on March 31 this year has been disqualified from driving for being over the alcohol limit.

Sharzad Anjam Amjal, 35, of Millbrae Road, had collided head on with a transporter vehicle when visibility became poor. He was found to have 58 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

Skipton magistrates were told by Amjal's solicitor that the defendant was currently in Pakistan but had accepted responsibility.

He said he had believed he was under the limit.

Magistrates disqualified him from driving for 14 months and ordered he pay a fine of £150, a surcharge of £34 and costs of £85.

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IDFIMH

Interested that the article headlined the fact that he was Scottish?

WTF has that got to do with it?

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IDFIMH

equally to the point why the emphasis on Taxi driver in the title he was not working at the time nor is there any evidence that he drank whilst working

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

He was just a motorist when offence was committed, how did they know he was a person licensed in Glasgow.

Not sure if there's some kind of prejudice evident in the headline, but it's maybe more of a case of the kind of minor details like that that make articles like this a tad more newsworthy. On the other hand, if it was a Scottish newspaper using the word English in the headline, I'd perceive it as prejudice, but not if it was a Belgian, say, because that fact would be worth headlining

And if you don't want to emphasise the word Taxi, don't add an unnecessary capital letter. It's taxi

And definitely not the TAXI used by someone else on here. That's regarded as SHOUTING online

(Unless it's a proper noun like a person's name, a business name, or a city or country, only the first word in a sentence should have a capital letter before it.)

For example:

"He went to visit his friend Fred in Manchester, and got a taxi from the station. He phoned Alpha Taxis when he needed a cab back to the station."

Here endeth the lesson for today

but Stuart we are Taxi Drivers (noun) what's wrong with capital letters are you embarrassed by your profession ?

if gays can be proud why not Cabbies ?

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

Capital letters are used on all TAXI top signs.

Unfortunately my writing skills are more professional than my taxi driving skills , but if you want to write as professionally as possible then capital letters are only for the start of a sentence, and for 'proper nouns' like names, titles, businesses, towns, cities, countries, rivers, mountains, blah, blah.

And a roof light is a sign, it's not a piece of writing

I mean, check out the newspaper reports and stuff from government on the recent disability and access stuff, and you'll only find 'Taxi' with a capital at the start of a sentence

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=38453

You might find the odd council that uses a capital T, but check out any newspaper like the Mirror, Guardian, Times and Telegraph, or the likes of the BBC, and they won't use a capital T

And if you use all capitals for any word then online PEOPLE WILL THINK YOU'RE SHOUTING

Of course, these things are ultimately a matter of personal style and custom.

For example, the headline in the article here is:

Scottish taxi driver was over the alcohol limit in Settle bypass crash


In a US newspaper they would tend to capitalise most of the words in the headline

Scottish Taxi Driver Was Over the Alcohol Limit in Settle Bypass Crash


Check out the headlines here, for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper

I see the New York Times also uses numbers rather than letters for numbers less than 10. Utterly shocking - wouldn't happen here

Boris Johnson Fights to Hold Power After 2 Top Ministers Jump Ship


Across here the headline would be:

Boris Johnson fights to hold power after two top ministers jump ship

probably because the alchohol limit in scotland is lower than the alchohol limit in england

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i started out with nothing and ive still got most of it left