Driver charged after taxi smashes through Huddersfield garden wall
A taxi driver who crashed his car through the garden wall of a Huddersfield home and then allegedly attempted to assault a police officer has been charged with two offences.
The drama occurred in the early hours of Sunday, May 31, at Wakefield Road, Moldgreen, across from what was the old West Yorkshire Police station.
A crowd gathered at the scene of the smash by a driver whose private hire vehicle displayed a Honley and Holmfirth cars decal.
The owner of the home affected said he was shocked to be woken by the scenes of destruction on his door step. Derick Hirst, 89, added: "I heard this noise and at first thought it was just a big waggon shuddering past. "But I looked out of the window and there was a police officer coming down my driveway."
The force of the collision took the Royal Mail post box into Mr Hirst's garden.
A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said 48-year-old Mohammed Iqbal from Huddersfield had been charged with two offences including assaulting a police officer and driving over the prescribed limit due to drugs.
