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Black cabs
In message , Zara Henderson
writes Kat" wrote in message ... 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. |
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