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ILLEGAL STROUD TAXI DRIVER PROSECUTED
The operator of an illegal taxi business has been fined over £400 and disquali- fied from driving by Cheltenham Magis- trates’ Court after pleading guilty to six offences.
According to Stroud Life, the prosecution followed investiga- tions by Stroud District Council which led to a planned operation to catch the offender. Adrian Woods, from Ebley, pleaded guilty to six offences in
relation to taxi licensing including two for no insurance. He was fined a total of £420 and disquali- fied from driving for six months. His offences related to two vehicles.
In August, following a complaint from a member of the public and concerns from other taxi drivers, officers from Stroud District Council phoned Mr Woods to book a taxi to take them from Stroud to Gloucester.
He subsequently picked them up, took them on their journey and charged a fare. As he was not licensed to do this it constituted a crimi- nal offence.
Shelley Coles, licens- ing officer for Stroud District Council, said: “Public safety is our overriding concern. We hope that this case will send a clear message to any potential rogue oper- ators that we will track them down and prosecute.”
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A taxi driver who twice dashed through level cross- ings while the barriers were com- ing down has been banned from getting behind the wheel. Shakeel Maqsood, 31, drove carelessly on two separate occasions within just weeks of each other, a court was told. Maqsood was driv- ing a white minibus taxi when he went through the Long- beck level crossing while the barriers were being lowered, on June 26 this year. The barriers had been activated as a train was approach- ing and the flashing lights had been indi- cating. The minibus didn’t stop and went through the crossing, but fortunately the operator spotted what was happening. Rachael Dodsworth, prosecuting, told the court: “He had to stop lowering the
barriers or the vehi- cle would have hit them. The gate actu- ally touched the roof of the taxi.”
Then, on July 12, Maqsood drove a white taxi minibus through another level crossing, this time at Nunthorpe. As on the previous occasion there had been an indication that a train was approaching and the barriers were being lowered but had to be stopped to avoid hitting the taxi. According to the Teesside Evening Gazette, Maqsood, from Stockton, had pleaded guilty to two offences of driving without due care and attention.
But he failed to turn up at court and he was sentenced in his absence.
District Judge Andrew Meachin imposed a 12-month driving ban and fined him a total of
£220, with £85 costs and a £22 victim sur- charge.
The case against Maqsood had been brought by British Transport Police. A British Transport Police spokesman said the taxi driver had put his own and other people’s lives at risk on two sepa- rate occasions with- in weeks of each other.
As a taxi driver he should have dis- played a duty of care but “incredibly he was still willing to put lives on the line by ignoring warning lights and sirens and trying to dash through the cross- ings,” said the BTP spokesman.
“Most accidents are as a result of impa- tience, not being prepared to wait and trying to beat the train. For the sake of 60 seconds, a little patience can prevent lives being ruined.”
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