A few days ago, a complaint was made in Pasto, where the taxi driver made the passenger get off when he asked him to drive and leave the cell phone, now, a situation of aggression has been known in Bucaramanga.
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After an insult and to which the taxi driver did not respond because he was still talking on the cell phone, a kind of ‘slap in the face’ came, which can be seen in a short video that a passenger recorded, apparently on the road to Bucaramanga, Santander.
Apparently, the fact that the driver of the yellow vehicle was talking on the phone almost caused an accident when crossing a traffic light.
“See, sapo hij… don’t talk on the cell phone, don’t talk on the cell phone while driving,” was the insult of a driver who was in a van-type vehicle.
I kept talking…
Meanwhile, the taxi driver ignored him and continued his phone conversation with laughter included. The passenger decided to record the scene, because the drivers were beeping at him from behind.
The angry driver blocked his way and got out, approached the taxi driver: “Don’t talk on the cell phone, cucho, is it going to kill someone? He’s driving.” And he gave her a kind of ‘slap’. However, it was later learned that he touched the phone that the driver took from his ear.
He rebuked the taxi driver,
He tried to knock her cell phone down.
After the incident and assault, the taxi driver got out but the other driver got into his vehicle and drove away.
On TikTok the video It has gone viral this weekend, and although it divides opinions because some point out that “solving things with violence has us screwed”, others emphasize that these actions by drivers “can cause tragedies.”
In addition, they criticize the attitude of the taxi driver who, despite the entire situation, did not hang up, “and from what is heard it was not an emergency that he was attending,” they review.
It is not the only case, in Pasto a few days ago a passenger reported that a taxi driver made him get out of the car.
“We went to the Pabón Specialties clinic next to the Colácteos of the Panamericana, the man was offended because I told him to drop the cell phone and please drive looking straight ahead since the Panamericana is a busy road,” he said.
After the discussion, the man got out of the taxi at the Coonartax pump on the Panamericana.
It’s an infraction
Not only taxi drivers talking on cell phones, bus drivers, motorcycle drivers, even cargo trucks, private cars circulate on the roads not only talking; but even viewing social networks, in chats, writing and reading messages.
A clear distractor when driving.
According to the Road Safety Agency, every 12 minutes in the country a driver is sanctioned for looking at the screen of his cell phone and other electronic elements, or talking on them.
“This involves long periods of visual and cognitive distraction. For example, you can go several kilometers without realizing it, speed up, run a traffic light; a stop or have an unforeseen braking.
transit code set a penaltythe C38: $500,000 is the fine.
It is allowed that you can talk, with the use of hands-free. However, given the affectation in the attention, they recommend that the conversations be brief, avoid discussing and if you receive an impactful news or that startles the driver, look for parking and stop for a few minutes.
