QUOTE (part time @ Aug 11 2009, 07:39 AM)
So I get a Taxi from town to home (perish the thought) making use of the Taxi special privileges through the traffic, then once the Taxi has relieved me of several hundred pounds (is that the going rate these days?)
You don't use taxis then!
QUOTE (part time @ Aug 11 2009, 07:39 AM)
it gets to make it's way unhindered back into town.....empty apart from the non seatbelt wearing driver....doesn't stack up in my eyes.
Well you can join the group of people that get the hump over the daftest things gang!
For me, I am very unlikely to be or want to be a taxi driver. Also, I would wear a seatbelt whether I was required to do so by law or not. So for me, this is a no problem issue.
For the record...
Exemption to wearing a seatbeltThe following exemption to wearing a seatbelt applies by virtue of the Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seatbelts) Regulations 1993:
* a person holding a medical certificate;
* the driver of or a passenger in a motor vehicle constructed or adapted for carrying goods, while on a journey which does not exceed 50 metres and which is undertaken for the purpose of delivering or collecting any thing;
* a person driving a vehicle while performing a manoeuvre which includes reversing; a qualified driver (within the meaning given by regulation 17 of the. Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999) who is supervising the holder of a provisional licence (within the meaning of Part 111 of the Act) while that holder is performing a manoeuvre which includes reversing;
* a person by whom, as provided in the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999, a test of competence to drive is being conducted and his wearing a seat belt would endanger himself or any other person;
* a person driving or riding in a vehicle while it is being used for fire brigade or, in England, fire and rescue authority or police purposes or for carrying a person in lawful custody (a person who is being so carried being included in this exemption);
* the driver of—
(i) a licensed taxi while it is being used for seeking hire, or answering a call for hire, or carrying a passenger for hire, or
(ii) a private hire vehicle while it is being used to carry a passenger for Hire;
* a person riding in a vehicle, being used under a trade licence, for the purpose of investigating or remedying a mechanical fault in the vehicle;
* a disabled person who is wearing a disabled-person's belt; or
* a person riding in a vehicle while it is taking part in a procession organised by or on behalf of the Crown.
Source:
Exemption to wearing a seatbelt