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BOOZED UP BASSETLAW CABBIE SPOTTED CAREERING ALL OVER THE ROAD IN RETFORD


A cabbie who was over the limit when he careered “all over the road” in Bassetlaw must find a new line of work. Police stopped Ayub Kassaar in a Toyota Corolla, in Ranby, in the early hours of December 22. He smelled of alcohol and a breath test


revealed he had 83mcg of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 mcg. The court heard he has no previous convictions and he received full credit for his early guilty plea. Kassaar, 33, from Peterborough, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at


Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Tuesday 16 January. He was banned from driving for 18 months but a rehabilitation course could reduce the disqualification by 25 per cent. He was fined £120 ordered to pay a £48 statutory surcharge and £85 court costs.


SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR CHESHIRE PH DRIVER FOR GOING ON SCHOOL RUN OVER LIMIT


A PH driver from Cheshire West who did her council contract school run over three times the legal alcohol limit has avoided jail. A police officer spotted Lacram- ioara Giurgea’s Kia Sportage at 8.45am in December, driving at 10mph in Winsford, hitting the kerb. The officer followed the vehicle to a nearby street where it pulled up outside a house. Uniform officers


soon arrived and breathalysed Giurgea at the roadside. The 46-year-old had 130 mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath. She was arrested at the roadside. Giurgea, from Winsford, had already picked up the child’s escort and was about to pick up the child when she was stopped. Giurgea appeared before Chester magistrates on January 11, where


she pleaded guilty to drink-driving. The court heard Giurgea has 28 years’ experience working as a taxi driver, 10 in UK and 18 in Romania. Giurgea, who had already lost her job, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. She was also banned from driving for 29 months and ordered to pay £120 costs and £154 victim surcharge.


KEIGHLEY CABBIE DROVE OVER WOMAN’S FOOT AS SHE CROSSED THE ROAD


A cabbie ran into a woman as she crossed a road at Skipton Bus Station, breaking a leg and bones in a foot. Haq Nawaz, 52, had picked up some customers and was turning in the entrance to the bus station at around 10pm on May 7 last year when he drove into the woman and over her foot, Skipton Magistrates heard on 26 January. She and her husband were on their way to a restaurant when she was hit by Nawaz’s taxi. Nawaz got out of his vehicle and told the woman he’d not seen her.


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After 45 minutes, an ambulance arrived and she was taken to hospital where an X-ray confirmed she had a broken tibia in one of her legs, and broken bones in a foot. She spent four weeks with her leg in plaster and suffered bruising. Nawaz admitted causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention. In mitigation, Julian White said he had been driving since 1987 and had been a taxi driver on an off for 30 years, and had always had a clean licence. Mr White said Nawaz knew the


couple, they were regular custom- ers, and he had been to see them. “He could not be more contrite. This was a momentary lapse of concentration,” said Mr White. Probation officer Andrew Watson said there was a question mark over whether Nawaz would get his taxi licence back after the ban. Nawaz, from Keighley, was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours’ unpaid work. He was also banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a surcharge of £114.


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