FIT AND PROPER
GLASGOW PHV DRIVER KEEPS LICENCE DESPITE COLLISION WITH PASSENGERS ABOARD
A private hire driver who pulled out into a dual carriageway and collided with another vehicle while passengers were aboard has kept his licence.
Dil Agha Qazikhail, 62, was fined £260 and got four penalty points after he drove without due care and attention in Glasgow last July. The driver’s agent told the licensing and regulatory committee on 12 October, that Mr Qazikhail had made the necessary checks before crossing the dual carriageway. He said that as Mr
Qazikhail exited another vehicle collided with him from the left. The agent described it as a “lapse of judgement” and a “mistake” and told councillors it was his client’s first road traffic accident in ten years of driving. He added: “He accepts this was his fault.” Pointing out Mr Qazikhail’s reputation in the business, he said that he was described as having a 4.94 rating as a driver - which is considered excellent. Committee chair SNP councillor Alex Wilson asked if passengers
were on board during the collision. The agent confirmed the driver and passengers were taken to hospital as a precaution after the incident. Cllr Wilson asked what reassurance could be given that this won’t happen again. The agent confirmed Mr Qazikhail is “more wary” and does “extra checks.” The committee granted the renewal of Mr Qazikhail’s private hire car drivers’ licence with a severe warning issued over his future conduct.
TWO HALTON TAXI DRIVER LICENCES REVOKED OVER HISTORICAL SEX ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
Two Halton licensed cabbies had their licences revoked over investigations into historical child sex abuse. A report published for Halton Borough Council’s regulatory committee said the first review was instigated in March following information from the authority’s safeguarding team, and the second came in September with a referral from the children’s and families services division. The outline details were contained in an appendix to an agenda for a meeting scheduled on October 12. Neither driver was identified nor were any further details of the investigations’ progress contained in the report. There was no suggestion the investigations related to their former employment. The entry for the first review said: “The licensing department received information from the
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council’s safeguarding unit of a police investigation regarding allegations of historic sexual abuse involving a child.” For both reviews and the action taken the report said: “The chief executive exercised his emergency powers to revoke the driver and vehicle licence with immediate effect as there was reasonable cause and it was in the public interest to do so. “This was agreed by the leader of the council, the operational director – legal and democratic services and the operational director finance.” Six other licence reviews were also summarised. In all six reviews, drivers were asked to submit new applications. Half were refused. In one case that resulted in revocation, the driver had declared nine points on his application but not to the licensing team, on
another a driver had failed to declare “relevant offences” that were discovered during a DBS check, and in the third matter the driver had declared their convictions for violence but that ten years had not elapsed since the completion of any sentence. The other three renewed applications were granted. Last month’s meeting was also to discuss and decide whether to implement a requirement for taxis to display a customer feedback notice, and committee members have been asked to approve a correction to the council’s professional standards policy that had incorrectly identified that during a licence review the burden of proof that a driver is a fit and proper person shifts to the council, when the report said relevant case law has established it lies with the applicant.
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