Footage emerged yesterday on Facebook, showing a minicab driver, desperately trying to drive away, after allegedly causing a collision. The TfL registered private hire car was seen by witnesses to have reversed into a Taxi.
The vehicle sporting TfL licence roundels, drove off at speed almost running over two Taxi drivers who were trying to cut off his escape.
The Mystery Begins:
Earlier yesterday,Taxi Leaks carried out a registration search on the Transport for London's PHV license checker website and found that the silver Peugeot FE12LZS indeed had a TfL licence disc number 410629. We took this screen shot below, from the TfL site.
Then later in the evening, when we checked again before posting the story, the Peugeot had been mysteriously removed from the website, even though it was only licences just over 4weeks ago.
As the incident had been reported to both TfL and the Met Police, we would assume, after viewing the footage, TfL have decided to immediately revoked the vehicles PHV license.
So (if this is indeed the case) credit where credits due and well done to TfL.
We now await the fun and games!
Was it an Uber driver?
Did he have the App switch on?
Does he have Hire and Reward insurance?
Was that switched on?
Was the driver, a licensed PHV driver?
Will we ever find out???