A taxi driver was left in agony when he was TASERED by passengers.
The 42-year-old was subjected to a vicious assault - including being shocked with a stun-gun - after asking two men for the fare upfront.
The thugs demanded the victim’s cash and keys in the attack - the latest in a string of incidents in which taxi drivers have been targeted by thugs.
The alarming incident took place at 10.30pm on Sunday night.
He had picked up the two men - understood to be in their early to mid 20s from Willow Bank in Lees.
As he drove along Hanson Street, Oldham - he was victim to a brutal assault.
Speaking about the attack, the dad-of-four from Oldham, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I picked them up and they asked to be taken a short ride away. Then they changed where they wanted to go part way through the ride.
“So I asked them for the cash up front because I thought they might do a runner. That is something I would normally do if I doubted someone wouldn’t pay.
“They said they wouldn’t do that so gave me their phone as a deposit. But then all of a sudden they said ‘give me your money’.
“I said I didn’t have any money and they asked for my car keys. Then the lad in the back started punching me and so did the bloke in the passenger seat. Then I felt shocks all down my left side and realised the bloke in the back was tasering me.
“It hurt a lot. It was like sharp shocks. I didn’t know what the hell was going on.
“I tried to pull over and started honking my horn in the hope that someone would come out and help me.
They still had hold of me at this point and they had knocked off my glasses.”
Fortunately a resident came out of a house and the man in the passenger seat ran off.
The man added: “I then managed to un-clip my seatbelt and get out of the car and I just threw my keys on the floor.
“It hurt a lot. It was like sharp shocks. I didn’t know what the hell was going on.
“I tried to pull over and started honking my horn in the hope that someone would come out and help me.
“They still had hold of me at this point and they had knocked off my glasses.”
Fortunately a resident came out of a house and the man in the passenger seat ran off.
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ELECTRIFYING Questions in Parliament
James Frith Labour, Bury North
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what incentives the Government plans to provide for the purchase of electric cars; and what step his Department plans to take to stimulate the used electric car market.
Hansard source
(Citation: HC Deb, 29 March 2018, cW)
Jesse Norman Jesse Norman Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Government is investing nearly £1.5bn between April 2015 and March 2021 in one of the most comprehensive global programmes of support for electric vehicles, with grants available for new plug in cars, vans, lorries, buses, taxis and motorcycles, and schemes to support charging point infrastructure at homes and workplaces and on residential streets.
The Government’s forthcoming zero emission road transport strategy, which will be published after the local elections, will set out its plans to support the UK transition to zero emission vehicles.
There is a developing market for second hand electric vehicles. Used electric vehicle motorists are able to take advantage of the favourable tax regime the Government has put in place and local initiatives such as free parking, as well as the Government’s grant schemes to assist with the cost of installing chargepoints.
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NORWICH
Late-night revellers are today being urged to double check if they are getting into a genuine taxi after a woman was sexually assaulted in Norwich.
Norfolk police is continuing its investigation into reports that a woman was attacked after being picked up by what she thought was a taxi on Sunday.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was assaulted at around 2.15am in the Norwich area on April 15.
Police said the victim was being supported at the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) by specialist officers.
Now, councillors and black cab drivers in the city are urging people to ensure they are getting into a licenced vehicle.
Chris Herries, Norwich City Council’s cabinet member for safer, stronger neighbourhoods, said the incident was “unsettling”.
“You should aways double check that you are getting into the taxi you have ordered,” she said.
“If it is a black cab then you know that hopefully it is going to be safe.
“But if it is a firm you are phoning, make sure you know the name of the company you have phoned and that the taxi is from them.”
Police said they had been working with the victim to obtain a full account as to what happened.
No further details about the exact location of the incident have been provided.
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Uber to appeal against court ban from operating taxi service in Slovakia
It wants to resume its services in Bratislava as soon as possible.
The US alternative taxi service Uber will appeal against a court order banning it from operating its taxi service in Slovakia via people and vehicles that fail to meet the requirements set by Slovak legislation. Miroslava Jozová, Uber’s spokeswoman for Slovakia and the Czech Republic, has informed.
The Bratislava I District Court failed to deliver the decision on the injunction correctly leaving room for appeal.
“The court informed us that the decision was not delivered correctly, so we now have the opportunity to appeal against it,” said Jozová, as cited by the TASR newswire on April 13. “At this point we are analysing the court’s decision and we will make an appeal as soon as possible because we believe that services such as Uber should be a standard part of the options for mobility in every modern city.”
Uber intends to do its utmost to return to Bratislava as soon as possible. Before its services were banned by the court, Uber was the most popular city mobility application in Bratislava, claims Jozova.
“A survey showed that over 80 percent of people in the Slovak capital want our application to remain here and function,” she said.
Uber had to stop operating its taxi service in Slovakia as it uses people and vehicles that fail to meet the requirements set by Slovak legislation. It’s also been banned from operating its taxi service with drivers that fail to meet the same conditions required from taxi drivers.
The Bratislava I District Court issued the respective verdict in mid-February and the company switched off its mobile application in Slovakia on March 27.
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