Inges passenger spoke about killing: 'It was a really tough trip'

Flextrafik Drivers to Discuss Safety After Murder

Inge Pedersen, a former Flextrafik driver, described a trip from Herlev to Ballerup as the longest in her 32-year career. The reason was a young man she was supposed to drive.

As the door closed, and Inge Pedersen started the car, the passenger asked if it was allowed to kill someone.

- I didn't know what to say. What do you say to a strange man sitting alone in the car?

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More Safety, Thanks

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Throughout the journey, Inge Pedersen tried to avoid the question.

- I tried to talk about everything else and told him to talk to someone smarter than me, because I'm not very smart, she said.

The entire situation made her feel uneasy, and today she wishes she could have said no thank you to the ride, or that there were other safety measures in the car.

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> As soon as the first car is closed, and I begin to drive, then he begins to ask, if it is allowed to kill someone.

> Inge Pedersen, former Flextrafik driver

- I would like to have been able to press an alarm, to drive to the side, and there had been people and helped me to get him out of the car, so he could also get help, she said.

Unfortunately, there are many drivers who have had similar experiences. And back in March, a ride ended fatally. A young driver was killed by a passenger who was supposed to be driven to a psychiatric clinic in Roskilde at night.

Read also: Brother of murdered driver has canceled the ride: 'It's too dangerous' ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bror-til-draebt-chauffoer-har-indstillet-koerslen-det-er-farligt )

The scary rides also make chauffeur Henrik Kazzie Örbæk shout out. He drives a Flextrafik ride once a week. And he believes that more education and supervision can contribute to more safety.

- It's really simple to say that all flex cars should be equipped in the same way as taxis, but with direct video surveillance, he said and continued:

- In the old days, when I took taxi cards, the training consisted of six weeks, during which one received significantly better education in conflict resolution than today.

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Transport Minister to Act

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Reports from scared Flextrafik drivers raise concerns at Christiansborg.

Among others, the Social Democrats, where transport spokesman Mads Olsen, very much wants to discuss, among other things, education and supervision with transport minister Thomas Danielsen (V).

- Now we have heard about these Flextrafik drivers who are afraid to go to work. So are we forced to look at - can we make it safer? That, I think, we owe this professional group to do, he said.

And Jens Meilvang, who is a transport spokesman in the Liberal Alliance, also believes that it is time to do something about the safety of the drivers.

- It is certainly safe to say that it is more dangerous to drive to a psychiatric hospital and pick up a patient and drive them to another hospital than to drive with Mr. and Mrs. Denmark, he said.

Therefore, he very much wants to see closer to a proposal that 3F has put forward. The union suggests a separate bid for the transport of psychiatric patients.

Read also: 3F demands action after murder on Flextrafik driver ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/3f-kraever-handling-efter-drab-paa-flextrafik-chauffoer )

- So we isolate the problem, so it is someone who understands how to handle this type of patient who should do it.

Both the Social Democrats and the Liberal Alliance are ready to discuss it with the transport minister.

But according to minister Thomas Danielsen (V), the decision on the bid does not lie with him.

- It is the relevant region that visits the patient, which in that connection makes the decision about how the transport of a specific patient, for example a psychiatric patient, should take place, he wrote to DR.

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