WORLDWIDE TAXI FOCUS from USA
SEVEN INJURED AFTER TAXI CRASHES INTO PEDESTRIANS IN NEW YORK
Seven people have been in- jured, including a child, when a taxi crashed into pedestrians on a pavement in New York City on Christmas Day. The accident happened next to the iconic Macy’s department store in Midtown Manhattan just after 4pm. It was reported that the 58-year-old driver lost control of his cab after suffering a medical emergency. A nine-year-old boy suffered a cut and a 41-year-old woman sustained an injury to her head, police said. Both were taken to hospital. Two women and three others were also injured. One of the women suffered an injury to her leg and was also taken to the hospital. A passer-by visiting from Oregon helped free the boy and his mother after they became trapped under- neath the taxi. The tourist said: “I ran over and noticed there was a little boy, his leg was underneath the front passenger tyre as it was spinning. One man got into the vehicle shut the engine off. There was a whole group of us that ripped the bumper off, lifted the car back and then that’s when I grabbed the little boy, got him to the corner, realised that what ended up being his mum was underneath.”
from France
CABBIES PROTESTING OVER PATIENT TRANSPORT PARALYSE PARIS
Thousands of cabbies descended on Paris on 3 December, effectively bringing the French capital to a standstill. There were major disruptions on the roads, with the city essentially “paralysed”, especially on the A1 motorway. More than 2,000 taxis gathered near the National
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Assembly (7th arrondissement), where some had been parked since 8am. Some cabbies waved flares, there were flaming barricades and riot police gathered in the city centre. Taxi drivers are furious at changes in the healthcare transport system introduced in the 2024 Social Security budget. These require cabbies to offer car- sharing for medical patient transport, where multiple patients may need to be transported simultaneously. Drivers argue that this reform, part of cost-saving measures by the French National Health Insurance Fund, will force them to provide additional discounts, which they
claim will make their services
unsustainable financially. Recent demonstrations have
included rolling
blockades and slow-traffic operations in Paris and other cities, such as Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon, significantly disrupting major routes. Taxi drivers want “the abandonment of measures threatening the taxi transport of patients”. According to the Team Taxi association, they also want to “combat illegal competition from VTC platforms” (meaning transport cars with drivers or driver-driven cars, such as Uber, Bolt...) and “finally promote taxis as an essential public service.”
from Ireland
GARDAI SWOOP ON CABBIE WATCHING VIDEO WHILE DRIVING IN DUBLIN
Gardaí who were on patrol in Cabra Co. Dublin spotted a taxi driver watching a video on his mobile phone while driving. The driver was pulled on the Navan Road and was issued a Fixed Charge Penalty Point notice by An Garda Síochana.
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