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Highland taxi driver fined after driving off before his passenger had completely entered his car

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... d-his-car/

An Inverness taxi driver drove off before one of his passengers had properly entered his vehicle.

The woman was left bruised and lying on the pavement as 72-year-old Iain Mackenzie left the Academy Street rank on August 5.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told his fare “was half in half out, having just got one leg into the car” before he pulled off at low speed.

Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood heard that Mackenzie stopped immediately on seeing his passenger had not properly got in to his cab.

Mackenzie, of Kilmore, Drumnadrochit, admitted careless driving and was fined £300.

The retired bus driver’s clean driving licence was also endorsed with six penalty points.

Defence solicitor Ken MacLeod said: “This is a considerable embarrassment to him. As a bus driver, passenger safety was drilled into him.”

That's interesting - on the Press & Journal's website this morning there are two different careless driving stories involving passenger/pedestrian incidents at taxi ranks. And both took place in towns in the Scottish highlands, roughly speaking.

What are the chances of that?

Inverness and Oban aren't exactly neighbouring towns now are they ?

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They are to me.

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Not in terms of distance, but between the two there's very little apart from the small town of Fort William, the Loch Ness monster and lots of sheep.

So it's a bit like the two articles were reported in the same local newspaper on the same morning and the incidents took place at taxi ranks in Grantham and Melton Mowbray, or Brighton and Worthing, say.

It's not like they took place in Liverpool and Nottingham, say, which are a similar distance apart as Inverness and Oban, but clearly a whole different ball game as far as 'local' in concerned.

Which in turn is why both articles were reported on the 'Highland' section of the Press & Journal's website.

yes well they aren't in India so we couldn't really expect you to know

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I thought scientists had proven that Nessie sightings were seals which when they swim in groups looked a bit bigger and that the "monster" was just a myth

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Nessie is real enough, as this photo illustrates

Never been able to fathom why the sightings of Nessie always seem to happen at the beginning of the holiday season.

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You have more chance of seeing Nessie than you have seeing a seal in Loch Ness

there is actual footage of seals swimming in a line creating a shape of what looks like the humps

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