Thought this was an update on another attack a few days ago, but this is a different one
They were both in Acocks Green, and both road rage attacks. The driver in mid-June was more seriously injured but an arrest had been made. This one makes it look like police not particularly interested
(Population of Acocks Green about 30,000 according to Wikipedia, so a substantial part of Birmingham, but two very similar attacks in a matter of days obviously isn't good
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Taxi driver considering quitting after road rage ordealhttps://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/m ... r-24315434Jamil Bashir said he was now scared to return to his job and things had grown 'really bad' since the end of the lockdown
Image: Birmingham MailThese are the bruised features of cabbie Jamil Bashir, the alleged victim of a shocking road rage attack. And Jamil, a Birmingham black cab driver for 25 years, said the violence was the latest in a spike of assaults on taxi drivers.
The 53-year-old has informed police of the incident in Warwick Road, Acocks Green, and has received a crime reference number. But he said he was angry at a delay in officers taking a statement from him.
Jamil is now considering quitting the job. “Is it worth it?” he said. “If something like this happens, I can’t get out of my cab because I could lose my licence.
“I’m now fearful of driving and that’s never happened before. Since lockdown was lifted things have been really bad, I don’t know what’s wrong with people.”
Jamil was X-rayed at Edgbaston’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital and missed a day’s work through blurred vision. The father-of-three told police he was repeatedly punched on the morning of June 11, his attacker hurling blows through the cab’s open window.
A passenger in the taxi was “frozen” with fear, he said. Disturbingly, Jamil claimed the assailant had two young children in his vehicle.
“I think he was looking for trouble,” he said. "He was driving at 10mph in front of me. When traffic lights turned green, he didn’t move, then went through them on red.
“Someone sounded their horn and he started shouting and showing the finger. He then braked so hard I almost went into the back of him.”
Jamil said he pulled alongside the angry driver and told him, ‘there’s no need for that’. The individual, described as in his 40s and 6ft tall, responded by leaving his own vehicle and throwing punches.
“The punches kept coming,” said Jamal. “I was trying to fend them off. My passenger was just frozen. He kept saying, ‘that wasn’t your fault’.”
“I was really shook-up, it’s the first time I’ve been assaulted on the job.” A spokesperson for West Midlands Police confirmed no arrest has been made and enquiries continued.
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