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When I booked the private hire car for my mum I was assured there was a way to clamp the wheelchair down and a seat belt for her. When the time came the taxi picked her up got her and the wheelchair in the car but did not clamp it down or offer a seat belt, causing her to feel very unsafe. Is it against the law in the UK to carry a disabled passenger in her wheelchair without clamping it down and offering a seat belt if it was fitted in the car?
By law and its not just your local council, its e.u. but your local council has to enforce the law. When a wheel chair is placed into a wheelchair friendly or private hire, which incidentally have stricter rules now as new legislation is in. They must be clamped to the floor to stop movement and a safety belt put across the passenger. If the job isnt done right report it, you wont be named. They don't reduce the cost when things go wrong. You must be more daring, You can approach a cabbie and say Im worried about my Mum not being secured. what happens (god forbid) in an accident. Don't think the office would know. Cabbies have to be squeaky clean now and if they dont do there job they are hauled over the coals.
All our small and medium sized vehicles tend to have a lowered floor and a short low gradient ramp for wheelchair access.... Some may also have ...
I will be visiting the LA area with a student group and need to hire a wheelchair accessible car service to drive me around the major studios and entertainment companies in the area. We have a packed schedule and will be going on 3 visits per day so reliability is of the essence. Which LA transportation companies offer good service and have wheelchair accessible vans (the chair does not fold)?
I am looking for private transportation only *please do not reply with paratransit or MTA info*
call paratransit.
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Becoming Disabled On the Job
By Wheelchair Dancer - In the months after I was hired at my first adult job — the thing I had studied for, for over ten years — my immediate supervisor informed me from behind his desk that they had hired a thoroughbred. I looked down at my mixed race hands. Oblivious, he continued, “We just have to see if you can run.” At the very beginning of my second year on the job, my disablement process started. “I see that our thoroughbred has gone lame.” In my third year on the job, when my legs were an utter mess and I was stumbling around on two canes, I sat in his office away from the desk on a comfy chair. I felt like this was no longer a professional talking to; I was a visitor on the soft chair. We were both silent for a while, reflecting (so I like to think) on the wreck that I had become.
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