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HULL DRIVER’S ANGERWHEN PULLED OVER BY POLICE FOR BABY SITTING ON MUM’S KNEE IN PHV
A Hull taxi driver was told he would be prosecuted for something that is “completely legal”. HullLive that
reports Steven
Leadley, 64, was driving a female customer and her one-year-old child in August, when a police officer on a motorbike pulled the PHV to the side of the road. After the officer told himhe was breaking the law for carrying an
unrestrained
child in the back seat,Mr Leadleywas then told he should expect notification of his prosecution in
the post within 28 days. “I’ve been a taxi driver for 39 years and I think I know what the laws are,” said Mr Leadley. “The baby was sit- ting
on the
mother’s lap in the back of the car, and the law states that can happen up until the age of three. “The officer knock- ed on my window and told me it was an offence, and I told him it wasn’t. Then he told me he would ring me within 24 hours if he was wrong, oth- erwise I would be facing prosecution.
with unrestrained children under the age of three if they are held by an adult. He said: “I took the sheet of paper straight to Clough Road police station and they said they couldn’t get hold of anybody in traffic because
they’re Private Hire driver Steven Leadley
“I still haven’t re- ceived that phone call and nobody at the police station can get hold of any traffic officers.” Mr Leadley went straight
to the
licensing depart- ment of Hull City Council and was provided with a copy of the laws stating that taxis and PHVs
are allowed to drive
based in Welton. “I went back the next day and they still couldn’t get hold of anybody, so now I’m awaiting prosecution for a law that was never broken.” However, if one is not available in a taxi then the child
may travel unre- strained in the back. Chief
Inspector
Mark Bishop of Humberside Police roads policing unit, said: “On consider- ing the circum- stances of this par- ticular case, there appears to be no specific
offence
under the road traf- fic legislation, or any contravention of the taxi licence conditions, of car- rying a child under three years of age in the rear of a taxi and we will be con- tacting the driver to advise him accordingly.”
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