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NORTHFLEET TAXI DRIVER BANNED AFTER REFUSING DRUG TEST
A Northfleet taxi driver has been banned from driving after refusing a roadside drug test and blood test.
Rashpal Channa, 45, claimed he couldn’t complete the drug test due to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and couldn’t provide a blood sample due to a needle phobia. He was stopped by police in Medway on July 31, 2022, and suspected of driving under the influence of cannabis. Despite denying the charges, Channa was found guilty at trial in August 2023.
At his sentencing hearing on October 24, he was fined £300 and banned from driving for 20 months.
This is not Channa’s first brush with the law. In January 2022, he
was convicted of criminal damage after smashing the window of another taxi driver’s car during a dispute over fares. The court heard that Channa had previously managed to get an interim driving ban lifted, despite facing a lengthy disqualification. His solicitor argued that he relied on his car for transportation due to health issues. However, the magistrates imposed the driving ban and additional penalties, emphasising the seriousness of his actions and the need to protect public safety.
GLASGOW PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER RAN OVER WOMAN LYING ON ROAD LEAVING HER IN COMA
A Glasgow private hire driver has been found guilty of careless driving after running over a woman who had collapsed on the road. John Paul Borland, 42, was con- victed at Glasgow Sheriff Court having initially stood trial for dangerous driving. He struck Patricia McBride, then 52, in Toryglen on the night of March 6, 2022. The court heard that Ms. McBride had been feeling unwell and collapsed while crossing Prospecthill Road resulting in her laying across the road. She was taken to hospital where her condition was treated as “life threatening.” She was placed in a medically induced coma within the intensive care unit for six days. She sustained 30 separate rib fractures, a pelvic fracture, a collapsed lung, blood in lungs and
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at him in the distance from the side of the road. Borland said: “As I got closer, I saw him waving and as I approached, I saw him and that’s when I hit the woman on the road. “Immediately after the impact,
a spinous process fracture. She was discharged from hospital on March 31 2022. Miss McBride also suffered a fractured collarbone, right clavicle, left wrist and right arm as well as wounds to her liver, kidney and spleen. The now former private hire driver, Borland, told the court that he was starting his shift in the south side of the city on the night of the incident. He stated that when he was driving, he saw a man waving
put the handbrake on and the first thing I did was run out of the car and a witness said that there was nothing I could have done then I asked for an ambulance to be called.” The prosecutor asked Borland in cross examination if he was blaming the waving man for the incident and he replied: “I’m not blaming anyone.” It was revealed that Borland, of the city’s Cathcart, has two previous road traffic convictions. Sheriff Paul Reid deferred sen- tence to allow for background reports and continued Borland’s bail.
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