Family calls on City to restore driving tests for Uber drivers

Bayview-news.com
Oct. 26, 2018

The family of Nicholas Cameron, killed in March when an Uber driver stopped on the Gardiner Expressway to retrieve his cell phone and GPS from the floor of the vehicle, has called for the City of Toronto to reinstate mandatory driving lessons for Uber drivers. For reasons never fully explained, such tests were eliminated when the City settled with Uber in 2016 to permit it to operate in Toronto. The driver, Abdihared Bishar Mussa, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of careless driving in the accident which saw his Hyundai Sonata hurled off the road in a rear end collision with another car. Its driver apparently didn’t see Mussa’s car. There is no stopping permitted where he had stopped. The accident killed Cameron, 28, and injured his girlfriend Monika Traikov. Cameron was the son of the late City News anchor Bill Cameron. Mussa had originally been charged with dangerous driving and criminal negligence causing death.