Drivers should be more forceful with wheelchair space conflicts

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The Supreme Court found “FirstGroup cannot be criticised for choosing not to express the notice in more forceful terms.” GARETH EVANS

After the case of Doug Paulley vs FirstGroup reaches the Supreme Court, a judgment is made stating that bus operators should do more to get a passenger to vacate a wheelchair space when a wheelchair-bound passenger wishes to board, though some criticise the ambiguity of what drivers should now do

A supreme court judgment has been made in the case of disabled bus passenger Doug Paulley vs First Bus, in which Doug’s appeal has been […]

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