Taxi Driver Online

Ho i am sorry.

TV’s Kim calls for safer taxi access for all

I dont think its a laughing matter

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Else soon we will all be working a maximum 48 hour week.

I dont think its a laughing matter

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the same vehicle is on as a P/hire in Bury.

Then you cannot do anything else then Charles.

But your members in Bury......errm them ones who you were told to take under your winf until there was enough of them to form their own association......are probably unaware of say Gateshead?

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They sell condoms in Boots but you can't sh@g on the floor inside the shop.

It's a cheap version of a sub standard Taxi, Doblo's have no place on the ranks or on a PH fleet.

A disabled man had to be cut free from the wreckage of a minibus taxi that went out of control and crashed in Froxfield last Friday afternoon.

The female driver lost control in slippery, wet conditions and the Vauxhall Vivaro crashed into a telegraph pole shortly after 1pm.

Though the driver escaped injury, there was concern for the male passenger who sustained a head injury. Initially it was feared he had a fractured skull but paramedics found it was just a deep cut. He was taken by land ambulance to Great Western Hospital in Swindon and was released after treatment. Electricians from Southern Electric made safe the power lines attached to the pole. The road was closed for two hours while the work was done.

That’s the view of actress Kim Tserkezie, star of BBC children’s programme Balamory, who suffered a fractured knee, pulled ligaments and severe cuts and bruises after being thrown out of her wheelchair onto the floor when the taxi she was travelling in stopped suddenly.

And I believe she would have escaped injury if she had been wearing her seatbelt like everyone else has to. Hardly the fault of the vehicle if the driver didn't bother to put it on for her (and she didn't do it herself or ask for it to be done).

Would you use an instance of an injured W/C user to ban black cabs if the driver shoved them in sideways (as many do)?

I''m sure the question people want answered is has this type of vehicle been crash tested in its wheelchair accessible form.

According to the VSA and various websites, this isnt always the case with converted vehicles.

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I think I already have.......the Birmingham case was one example

That aside will someone please tell me if the vehicle has been crash tested in is taxi form......because reading through the cr*p the VSA publish they seem to suggest no vehicle is crash tested which is converted.

Perhaps all vehicles used for the transportation of passengers should have an encap rating in the converted form?

http://www.euroncap.com/tests/fiat_doblo_2004/187.aspx

Protection provided by the Doblo was poor. It suffered major deformation of its body structure. Overall protection was mixed so that the outcome of the frontal test was much worse than that for the side impact. This was because of deformation of the body shell, displacement of the steering wheel and a rupture in the footwell. Protection provided by the child restraints was fairly good in both tests but protection for pedestrians proved to be extremely poor.

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