The cabbie looks behind and sees the woman's face was full of blood and bruises, causing him to abandon his taxi in horror.
The cabbie also often takes the passenger somewhere other than requested and then demands an outrageous price.
I am sure that the cabbies would be more than satisfied if they had a fare to the airport and one back at the standard fare.
The livelihood of a cabbie could be lost for five years, but he will not know the criteria used in the decision to withhold his licence.
At present, understandably, relatively few cabbies want to be out at 2 am, when they can earn no more than if they were out at 10 pm.
The cabbie has a personal right to working conditions that are free from this risk.
In the early days cabbies were inclined to be of a rather rough type of person sometimes rather undesirable.
I now return to the way in which cabbies are vetted because some elements have not yet been mentioned.
