LIVERPOOL

A man who got embroiled in a fight on a pavement ended up in the road where he was then hit by a private hire taxi.

The pedestrian, in his 30s, was on Walton Road, close to the Iceland supermarket, when the altercation broke out.

It happened at 11.15pm last night when the area was busy with football fans who had earlier left Goodison Park for Everton's dramatic 2-2 draw with Newcastle. 

The man was in crash with a Skoda Octavia private hire taxi.

The driver stopped at the scene and was not arrested by police.

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BOLTON

A TAXI driver who failed to tell licensing chiefs of a previous conviction has been suspended from working. 

The man was caught speeding in April of last year but failed to tell Bolton Council until 46 days after he was required to.

 

A meeting of the Licensing Committee held at Bolton Town Hall last week heard that the driver had previously been warned after failing to reveal similar offences in 2017. 

It also came to light during the course of the meeting that he had attended a speed awareness course in 2018. 

He had not been carrying any passengers at the time of the offence but the committee judged he was not "fit and proper" and gave him a two-week suspension. 

Explaining the decision, the council's minutes said: "Drivers have a duty to adhere to speeding limits at all times and exceeding them can be a real danger to the public. 

"Drivers have a duty to declare convictions in accordance with the conditions of their licence.
"There is therefore reasonable cause to suspend the licence as a warning and a deterrent."

At the same meeting a second driver was issues with a warning letter for similar offences. 

The hearing was not held in public, meaning the name of the driver was not revealed, however minutes from the hearing have since been made available.

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KIRKLEES

Hackney carriages – taxis which are licensed to ply for hire – are permitted to drive through the bus gate and use the bus lane.

But Kirklees Council issued two £60 fines as Mr Naim had failed to display a taxi sign on the roof of his Vauxhall Astra.

Mr Naim appealed to the council saying his vehicle was a hackney carriage regardless of whether it was carrying a taxi sign on the roof.
Kirklees Council, however, upheld the penalty charges saying: "Hackney carriage vehicles are authorised to access bus gates in Huddersfield but only when they are in use at the time and available for fee paying passenger journeys. Drivers cannot use the bus gate for their own convenience."

But Mr Naim, who has held a hackney carriage licence for 30 years, took the decision to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal who overturned the council's fines.

The parking adjudicator said: "The fact that Mr Naim has not provided evidence he was carrying a passenger at the time is therefore irrelevant. The question in this appeal then is whether a potential breach of the licence conditions by failing to display a roof top sign means that the vehicle is no longer a licensed hackney carriage. The answer to that question is no and the vehicle remains at all times a hackney carriage...

"I conclude that regardless of whether the roof top sign was present or not, the vehicle was in law a licensed hackney carriage at the time it used the bus gate and no contravention occurred on either occassion."

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