To be nervous about my 12 year old using a taxi alone?

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Shes uses bus and train but generally there are plenty of other people about if anything happens.

In a taxi though if anything went wrong or the driver decided to take advantage in any way she would be in a very vunerable position. My friend laughed and said I was being over protective and she lets her 11 year old dd use them all the time. I know that the majority of drivers are decent hard working people but somehow.can not shake off the worry she might get one who isn't.. probably because when I was 18 O was faced woth a driver who doubled usual fare and when I couldnt pay got in the back and tried to grope me... I managed to whack him in face get out and scream and man passing by stopped and stayed with me but I cant get it out of my head 20 years later

Some companies offer a female driver?

I had a bad experience with a driver when 18 who started to pull the car over after talking about how many passengers he had fucked. I pretended to make a call really quick. He touched my leg on the way out and I was horrified to be honest.

But most have been either very boring and give one word answers or we're very nice.

If it's late at night I like to have a female driver.

In my 10+ years in London I had 3 bad experiences, one very bad, with three different minicab firms. But it depends where you live. Where I live in Surrey the taxi firms seem far better monitored.

Dd has reguarly used taxis from that age. She uses the same firm as her school does & the reg no etc is texted to her when she books one.