WORLDWIDE TAXI FOCUS from South Africa
TEEN IN SCHOOL UNIFORM CAUGHT DRIVING TAXI CARRYING PUPILS
A 16-year-old boy, in school uniform, was arrested in Scottsville for driving a taxi carrying fellow pupils after provincial Principal Inspector Siphiwe Zuma spotted the vehicle being driven by the youngster. “The road is an unsafe space and you need someone with experience driving and someone who is qualified to operate a motor vehicle on a public road and when I noticed someone wearing (a school) uniform driving, it alarmed me and I turned around immediately.” Transport secretary and uMgungundlovu District chairperson, Bheki Bhengu, said an investigation would be carried out to find out if the owners of these taxis are from scholar transport or from the main association, which is part of the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco).
Bhengu added that this is the first time he had come across pupils being caught transporting other children. He said they may have been doing it all along, but never been caught.
from Mexico
TOURISTS ARE SAVAGELY BEATEN BY PLAYA DEL CARMEN TAXI DRIVERS
Disturbing video footage has captured the moment a German tourist couple was savagely beaten by taxi drivers in the Mexico resort city of Playa del Carmen. The victims were reportedly not happy with the exorbitant fare the driver had charged them after dropping them off by a night club. One of the three taxi drivers could be seen pounding the man with a sign while another walked over and kicked the defenceless victim. His female companion leaned over him in an attempt to block the blows, but a third driver kicked the man repeatedly. The woman could be heard shouting, ‘Stop it,’ while two other drivers stood by and did nothing to stop the assault.
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One of the attackers then approached the couple and delivered multiple blows to the man with a sign as bystanders in the background yelled at them to stop. A few days later prosecutors reported that thay had arrested two taxi drivers who participated in the beating of the couple. Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said the two drivers were arrested on charges of drug possession, after they were found to be carrying marijuana and cocaine in their taxis, however the cabbies were not immediately charged in relation to the attack the previous week. Authorities offered no further information on the tourists, or whether they were injured in the night-time attack. But they did say the permits for the two suspects’ taxicabs would be cancelled.
from Ghana
GHANAIAN DRIVER FILLS TAXI WITH 50 BAGS OF CHARCOAL
A group of people who needed to tran- sport several bags of charcoal to a market hired a taxi to con- vey them. Except for the driver’s
seat,
everywhere in the Opel Cadet was filled with sacks of charcoal.
In a video shared on X, after the taxi was filled with 50 huge sacks of charcoal, the driver attempted to move the vehicle but could not. Some men who helped load the charcoal into the taxi then pushed the car as it reversed and it later headed on its way. Several Ghanaians who saw the video, commented on it. Most people raised questions about road safety.
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