Public calls for annual checks after spate of crashes involving older drivers, but taxi trade warns that move could prompt more cabbies to quit
The Hong Kong government is facing mounting calls to mandate stricter health checks on elderly cabbies, but the taxi industry has pushed back and demanded that drivers be fully subsidised for annual medical screenings.
The taxi trade, under fire after a number of crashes involving cabbies in their eighties in recent years, also warned on Thursday that authorities should be prepared for a manpower crunch as more drivers, turned off by increased regulations, might quit the industry.
Residents and lawmakers earlier raised concerns over the fitness of elderly drivers after a taxi driven by an 80-year-old cabby ploughed into a Filipino tourist on Tuesday.
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