DRIVER PERSONAL SAFETY

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DRIVER PERSONALSAFETY

• Introduction to Day 2
• 21st Annual Conference of the
• International Association of Transportation
  Regulators
• September 16, 2008

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DAY 2 AGENDA

• 900-930 am Introduction to Driver Personal
  Safety 930-1015 am Presentation by NIOSH
  Project Proposal and a new safety device
  initiatives in North America
• 1015-1030 am Break
• 1030-1130 am Panel Discussion on Driver
  Personal Safety Initiatives

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DAY 2 AGENDA Continued

• 1130-1200 pm Enhancing the Profile of the IATR
• 1200-100 pm Lunch (Seascapes Ballroom)
• 115 pm Meet in Hotel Lobby for Bus to LAX
  Tour
• 130 pm Bus departs for LAX Tour returns by
  400 pm
• 400 700 pm Hospitality Suite Hosted by Hara
  and Associates (Suite 4057)

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Day 2 Agenda Continued

• 645 Meet in Lobby for Tour of Beverly Hills
• Sign up with Denise if you would like a guided
  tour (additional 15.00)

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Taxi Robberies

• On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at approximately
  2140 hrs, the victim was operating a taxi cab
  and picked up a fare at the Food Basics store at
  Jane and Wilson. The lone suspect directed the
  victim to drive him to Finch and Weston. After
  telling the driver to make a few turns the cab
  arrived in front of 149 Habitant Drive. The
  suspect pulled a handgun out and placed it to the
  head of the driver and demanded cash. The driver
  complied and the suspect made good his escape.
• Toronto-Crimestoppers

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Robbery Location
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Taxi Driver Deaths
ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson, Arizona Published
03.07.2008 Police worked to track down the last
fare of a Tucson taxicab driver on Thursday, a
day after he was found dead with a gunshot wound
in a Midtown alley. It was the 16th homicide in
Tucson this year. The cabbie, 27-year-old Timothy
Royce, was found about 1130 p.m. Wednesday in an
alley north of East Helen Street between North
Sixth and North Seventh avenues, said Sgt. Fabian
Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
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Other Cab drivers killed or assaulted on the job
In Tucson include

• November 1990 Vern Noland was kidnapped at
  gunpoint and forced to drive around for three
  hours.
• February 1991 Cabdriver Ronald George Brown was
  shot and killed. William Pedersen and Gilbert
  Cardona were convicted of the crime.
• March 1991 Yellow Cab Co. driver Dennis Reiley
  was kidnapped at gunpoint. He escaped when his
  attacker became distracted. Mark Joseph Flitter
  was convicted in the case.

• February 1992 Cabdriver Eric Spivak was injured
  when his throat was cut during a scuffle with a
  would-be robber.
• August 1992 Yellow Cab Co. driver Keith Riley
  was shot from just outside the cab and killed.
  Nathaniel Lee Jackson was convicted of
  first-degree murder.
• November 2002 Troy A. Prather was shot and
  crashed his cab into concrete pylons, which
  caused the cab to catch fire. Prather died at
  University Medical Center. Ricardo Joaquin
  Purdie-Pagan was convicted of second-degree
  murder.

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Taxi Licensing in Tucson, AZ

• Tucson, Arizona Municipal Code Sec. 20-300. 
  Purpose
• The purpose of this article is to promote the
  safety and general welfare of the public by
  regulating certain aspects of the taxicab
  business.
• many cities regulate for this reason as well
• who is looking out for the drivers needs?

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Safety Initiatives in use
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Safety Initiatives in use
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How do you best deter victimization in the Taxi
Industry?
A range of measures, rather than one measure
alone is likely to be more successful. Policy
makers should be wary of responding to the size
of the problem in simplistic fashion posing a
single solution as a cure all. It can be taken
that the larger the problem, the more complex the
solution. Such is the case with victimization in
the taxi industry. Dr. Fiona Haines, Criminology
Department University of Melbourne