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Unlicensed taxi driver loses licence and is handed eight points and £1,100 penalty (15 May 2017)

Date: 15/05/2017
Duncan Lewis, Crime Solicitors, Unlicensed taxi driver loses licence and is handed eight points and £1,100 penalty

Cornwall Council has prosecuted a taxi driver from Camborne for using a licensed taxi without insurance to transport children.

Magistrates in Truro gave 31-year-old Adam Jason Bagnall eight points on his licence at the hearing, after being told he had been carrying children on a Cornwall Council Passenger Transport contract. He was also fined £200 for using a licensed taxi without insurance, with £900 in costs.

The court heard that the Council’s Licensing Compliance team had received a complaint from a member of the public in January 2017 over the way the licensed taxi owned and operated by Bagnall was being driven.

The complaint alleged that, on two separate occasions, the vehicle had been seen driving at speed along the A30 through Shortlanesend towards Redruth, tailgating vehicles until it was able to overtake.

On 26 January, Andrea Carter from the council’s Licensing Compliance team and an officer from the Passenger Transport Unit went to Nine Maidens School, where they informed Bagnall that they believed his licensed vehicle was not insured or taxed.

He stated that he did have insurance and tax and he was asked to bring evidence of this to the council’s Offices at Dolcoath in Camborne. Later that morning, Bagnall went to the council’s office at Dolcoath, where he said that, after checking, he realised that the vehicle was not taxed or insured.

He had already taken the plate from the vehicle and was issued with a suspension notice for the vehicle.

Following further investigations, it was discovered that the vehicle had been uninsured since November 2016.

Bagnall told Magistrates that he had “been in a very dark place” following a relationship break up and had not been opening his post.

After sentencing, Cornwall Council’s Licensing Compliance officer, Andrea Carter, said:

“We are very pleased with the outcome of this case – Mr Bagnall undertook serious action in transporting the general public without insurance, especially children, and seemed to have complete disregard for his actions.”

Bagnall’s taxi driver licence was revoked by members of the Miscellaneous Licensing Committee on 10 February 2017.

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