Taxis have been targeted in a police crackdown in South Cumbria in an attempt to take unsafe vehicles off the road.
Cumbria Police, along with Barrow Borough Council and the DVSA, stopped a total of 79 taxis overnight on Friday April 28.
Checks on licensing, the condition of the vehicle and whether or not drivers had proper insurance were carried out by the partner agencies.
Thirteen vehicles were taken off the roads for a range of offences including faulty tyres, suspension, lighting and breaks. Another driver was penalised for a defective tyre.
One vehicle had its entire ABS system removed – a particularly dangerous action which means the vehicle’s inbuilt safety system would not respond in a controlled manner in the event of sudden or emergency braking.
Cumbria Safety Camera Partnership also supported the operation and detected 44 drivers using excess speed on Michaelson Road. A driver travelling at 56mph was clocked on the 30mph stretch of road.
A further 25 drivers were reported for excess speed on Abbey Road.
PC Simon Smith, of the South Mobile Support Group, said: “This was a successful multi-agency operation which saw us working closely with others, including the Special Constabulary, to increase road safety in the Barrow area.
“I would like to thank Barrow’s taxi owners and operators for their assistance, support and patience. We will continue to conduct these operations to ensure robust checks take place and enforcement is carried out.
"This is vital to making sure members of the public can have confidence in the safety of whichever taxi they choose.”
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CHINA
When her taxi driver started masturbating in front of her, a woman in the eastern province of Zhejiang responded by taking a video on her phone — only to find herself detained by police under China’s strict anti-pornography laws.
The incident took place in Shengzhou, a city in the center of Zhejiang, on the evening of April 23. The Paper, Sixth Tone’s sister publication, reported that the woman, surnamed Wang, had booked a cab through ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing.
Once in the car, she noticed that her driver — identified only by his surname, Xu — was pleasuring himself with his free hand. Wang secretly filmed Xu in the act and subsequently sent the incriminating evidence to a group of colleagues on messaging app WeChat. She did not alert the police but did register a complaint with Didi.
Wang ran into trouble because one of her colleagues forwarded the video to others in her own social network.
When police questioned Xu and Wang, the taxi driver was put into administrative detention for eight days after confessing to the crime of indecent conduct. But police also detained Wang for three days for disseminating obscene material.
Wang’s punishment aroused fervent discussion on social media, given that she sent the video evidence to a closed group of WeChat contacts and that her colleague forwarded the clip to a wider community of users only later.
“This woman only shared it in private to a select group of friends,” read the most upvoted comment below The Paper’s article. “She’s innocent; her colleague should be held responsible.”
Yet in an interview with The Paper, lawyer Deng Xueping pointed out that Article 68 of China’s Public Security Administrative Punishments Law targets those who manufacture and disseminate obscene materials, or who use computer or telecommunications networks to spread obscene information.
“Masturbation videos belong in the category of obscene recordings,” Deng said.
“Filming [the driver masturbating] counts as manufacture, and posting it on WeChat counts as dissemination.”
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