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DRIVER CHARGED AFTER TAXI SMASHES THROUGH HUDDERSFIELD GARDENWALL
A PHV driverwho crashed his car through the garden wall of a Hudders- field home and then allegedly attempted to assault a police officer has been charged with two offences. The drama occurred in the early hours of Sunday, May 31, at Wakefield Road, Moldgreen, across from what was the old West Yorkshire Police station. A crowd gathered at the scene of the
smash by a driver whose private hire vehicle displayed a Honley and Holm- firth Cars decal. The owner of the
home affected said he was shocked to be woken by the scenes of destruc- tion on his door- step.
Derick Hirst, 89, told the Huddersfield Examiner: “I heard this noise and at first thought it was just a big waggon shud- dering past. But I looked out of the window and there was a police officer coming down my driveway.” The force of the col- lision took the Royal Mail post box into Mr Hirst’s garden. A West Yorkshire Police spokeswom- an said 48-year-old Mohammed Iqbal
Derick Hirst in his garden
from Huddersfield had been charged with two offences including assaulting
a police officer and driving over the pre- scribed limit due to drugs.
OLDHAM CABBIES BLASTED FOR ‘PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK’ AFTER NEARLY HALF OF VEHICLES FAIL CHECKS
Councillors have
blasted the taxi trade for ‘putting people at risk’ after it was revealed near- ly half of vehicles are failing condition checks. The Manchester Evening News re- ports that members of Oldham’s licens- ing committee have proposed to enter into dialogue with the taxi
industry
over plans to reduce themaximumage of vehicles from 12 years to ten. It came after the annual
licensing
report showed that since last April, 1,044 taxis – 41 per cent - had failed a vehicle test at the council’s testing sta- tion at Moorhey Street. Cllr Graham Shuttle- worth told the panel he was ‘seriously
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concerned’ about the condition of some of the vehicles on the road. “When people are getting into them and vehicles have been used to ferry people and suspen- sion is faulty – these people are at risk, let’s make no bones about it,” he said. “A broken rear lamp isn’t a danger to them, although it’s not appropriate; but when suspension on a vehicle is a reason for failure I think we have to look at it quite seriously.” “We need to stop finger wagging with the trade and get firmer with them because I just think this whole situation is totally unaccept- able,” Cllr Shuttle- worth added. “We either need to reduce the age of
the vehicle, we need to deal with the drivers, or we need to get those vehicles off the road perma- nently.” Trading standards and licensing man- ager John Garforth told the panel that a 59 per cent rate of 2,500 tests was both ‘disappointing and concerning’. “Some drivers are clearly
bringing
vehicles unprepared and are using the mechanical test as a way of identifying faults on vehicles,” he said. The meeting heard that vehicles in Old- ham that are over ten years old are currently
tested
three times a year, and generally pass upon re-test. Mr Garforth added that when a decision is made on the
Greater Manchester- wide common li- censing
policies
early next year, the age of vehicles across all boroughs
would be fixed at ten years old. However the panel agreed to gather more information about the reason for
the failures and pre- sent them to the trade, with a view to trying to reduce the numbers moving forward.
CABBIEWITH 10 POINTS SPED AT 92MPH ONM65 -WITH PASSENGERS ON BOARD
Officers who spot- ted a taxi reaching speeds of 92mph on a motorway were shocked to discover he had two paying passengers in the back. Lancashire Road Police were patroll- ing on the M65 when a taxi came to their attention close to the exit for Burn- ley. According to the Lancashire
Tele-
graph, a spokesman said: “This taxi was stopped in Burnley
having been fol- lowed doing 92mph on the M65 in the rain. “Disgracefully he had two fares in the back and to make
things worse he already has
ten
points for speeding offences.
Lesson
clearly not learned so reported for sum- mons.”
JULY 2020
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