Kat" wrote in message
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Simple question!
Can a cab-driver refuse to take blind passengers?
TIA
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My husband who is a London Taxi Driver drove a partially sighted disabled
woman to a housing estate on the Essex road Islington,he assisted the lady
to her door & when he returned he was set upon by six hooded youths who had
just broken into his cab,they kicked him
"in the head so violently that he suffered a stroke & has not worked since &
we have a young family, that was almost three years ago.the advice that we
recieved from the "Met" was "never leave your vehicle if you feel your
personal safety is at risk" I think that a taxi driver has every right to
insist that a disabled person has some sort of assistance,they are not
ambulance drivers & they have no training nor are they insured if anything
should go wrong.

Zara Henderson
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Kat" wrote in message
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Simple question!
Can a cab-driver refuse to take blind passengers?
TIA
=======================================
My husband who is a London Taxi Driver drove a partially sighted disabled
woman to a housing estate on the Essex road Islington,he assisted the lady
to her door & when he returned he was set upon by six hooded youths who had
just broken into his cab,they kicked him
"in the head so violently that he suffered a stroke & has not worked since &
we have a young family, that was almost three years ago.the advice that we
recieved from the "Met" was "never leave your vehicle if you feel your
personal safety is at risk" I think that a taxi driver has every right to
insist that a disabled person has some sort of assistance,they are not
ambulance drivers & they have no training nor are they insured if anything
should go wrong.

I'm really sorry about what happened to your husband but in this
particular case the second taxi driver I spoke to agreed to take them so
he obviously had no such concerns.
I meet blind people travelling on the underground almost every day; many
of them need no assistance at all.
--
Kat Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

"Zara Henderson" Zara@Henderson wrote in message
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My husband who is a London Taxi Driver drove a partially
sighted disabled woman to a housing estate on the Essex
road Islington,he assisted the lady to her door & when he
returned he was set upon by six hooded youths who had
just broken into his cab,they kicked him "in the head so
violently that he suffered a stroke & has not worked since
& we have a young family, that was almost three years
ago.the advice that we recieved from the "Met" was
"never leave your vehicle if you feel your personal safety
is at risk"

Looks like the Met are as good at giving advice as they are at solving
crimes... after all, when a taxi driver has taken a wheelchair-bound
passenger to their destination, getting out of the vehicle is necessary in
order to use the ramps.

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