Another article from Hull complaining about people getting locked in a cab - they've even managed to shoehorn it into a piece about a driver hitting Bambi
Suspect a degree of paranoia from punters about this after recent incidents.
Pity the driver wasn't a 50+ woman though - no doubt she'd have miraculously healed the deer simply by touching it, Jesus-style
Hull woman's horror as 'laughing taxi driver hits baby deer - then drives off'
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She says she had to beg the taxi driver to go back and help the injured deer
Image: Hull Daily Mail
A Bransholme woman says she had to beg a taxi driver to return to the scene of a crash after a “laughing and speeding cabbie hit a baby deer".
The 21-year-old, who does not want to be named, was with a friend and returning home from Kingswood on Sunday night when the incident occurred in John Newton Way.
The woman claims that instead of stopping, the driver continued with the journey, leaving the deer lying in the middle of the road.
She said: “When he hit it, he carried on driving and me and my friend had to beg him to stop. What was more frightening was that we couldn’t unlock our doors until he got out and did it for us.
“He wouldn’t stop until I told him I was getting out to look.
"When he eventually stopped and we went to go and see if the deer was alive or not, he was stood laughing and just stood smoking rather than helping us.
“It was really scary. The driver didn’t even know what he had hit and just carried on driving. Then we saw that both the doors were locked at the back, and that scared us even more."
'He didn't seem bothered'
Distraught by what she had witnessed, the woman called Humberside Police, who attended with a vet.
She added: “The poor thing was still alive but couldn’t move. While I was on the phone to the police the taxi driver started kicking the side of his car to create more of an impact than what had been done.
“When I say he was kicking it, it’s like he was trying to dent his car that wasn’t even damaged.
"Luckily, three lovely people stopped and helped us move this deer off the road onto the path and comfort it, as I’m sure the poor thing wasn’t going to survive.
“He didn’t seem bothered. He stood laughing and was just on the phone to somebody laughing away too. He left it so that me and my friend sorted everything. We had to direct traffic and call the police.”
After eventually getting home, the concerned woman reported the incident to Ride Private Hire and Taxis, and says an operator allegedly told her “sorry you experienced a bad service”.
She is now planning to boycott the firm and has urged others to do the same in a Facebook post which has received over 1,000 shares.
Hull Live has contacted Ride, which is based in Princes Avenue . The company did not want to comment on the incident but a spokeswoman confirmed all of the firm’s drivers are self-employed.