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Ethan James

'Lengthy' wait for wheelchair taxi before fatal mishap

A coroner noted unwillingness among qualified wheelchair-accessible taxi drivers to do the work. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A 78-year-old man who died after losing control of his electric wheelchair while going home from his local pub had waited 45 minutes for an accessible taxi. 

Retired fisherman Robert William East was making the two-kilometre journey from a tavern in northern Hobart on March 16, 2022 when he veered off a gravel path. 

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