Q One of our coach drivers was stopped (with a full
11th May 1989, Page 63
11th May 1989
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load of passengers) in a roadside check. Every thing was OK but the traffic examiner picked up on the first-aid kit above the driver's head: he told the driver that it was incomplete ie. missing safety pins and one bandage. The driver and the operator were prosecuted. Surely this goes beyond reasonable law? What made it worse was that the official first-aid kit was behind an emergency break glass panel.
DR, London AI had cause to take with me to court a coach and the driver just to point out the same problem to the bench. I believe most PSV drivers carry a spare first-aid kit just for minor ailments and to save disturbing the primary kit_ The outcome was "case dismissed".