An elderly driver has avoided jail after killing an 83-year-old woman as she crossed the road.
No, this isn't another story about elderly car drivers - the missing words here are 'in his London bus'. Because if you think this story has the ring of familiarity, Reader, you're not wrong....
Partially deaf Ozdemir Zia, 77, hit Edna McLean when she was crossing Vincent Road outside Woolwich Arsenal station in southeast London on September 11, 2021.
Zia, who uses a hearing loop, had been allowed to continue work despite a previous conviction for crashing into another bus and six other incidents of bad driving.
Incredibly, it seems being deaf and having an appalling record behind the wheel is no bar to being a London bus driver!
The jury was not told about Zia's previous conviction for careless driving in 2018 when he injured passengers by crashing into another bus. He was fired by Stagecoach, one of the operators of Transport for London buses, because of his conviction. But he was back behind the wheel again after he applied for a job with Go Ahead, a different provider.
If this was America, a host of sharp-toothed lawyers would now descend on Go Ahead and strip it bare.
2 comments:
How on Earth did they get insurance for him? A few points normally bars you from a driving job
What are the odds the person doing the hiring at Go Ahead was of a similar diverse nature?
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