Taxi Driver Online

There's a YouTube video here, showing the driver dragging the passenger out and leaving him dumped on the road, then returning on foot ten minutes later to see what's happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz9e081zJo

Shocking moment London cabbie drags passenger from cab by his feet and dumps him in the road

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/s ... 97121.html

Shocking CCTV footage shows the "appalling" moment a London taxi driver dragged an unconscious passenger by the feet from his cab and left him lying in the middle of a road in central London.

City of London police today launched an appeal over the incident, releasing shocking footage of the suspect seemingly dumping the man in the path of oncoming cars.

The clip shows the moment the victim banged his head as he was pulled from the taxi and was knocked unconscious.

The taxi driver was filmed leaving the man lying in the middle Fenchurch Place, near Fenchurch Street station, before driving away.

An off-duty police officer discovered the injured man around 15 minutes after the clip was filmed, a spokesman said.

About 10 minutes later, the driver reappeared as members of the public tended to the victim, who was still lying in the road.

The driver brazenly spoke to police but did not mention that the man had been in his vehicle, the spokesman added.

The victim was taken to hospital by paramedics from London Ambulance Service.

City of London Police called on any witnesses to the incident which happened just after 6am on May 16 to come forward.

PC Christopher Hook said: “We would like to speak to anyone who witnessed this incident in May. To forcibly move a vulnerable person from your taxi and to leave them lying in the middle of the road is appalling and we need to find the man that did this.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 0207 601 2222, quoting reference number 2403. Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or visit crimestoppers-uk.org.


A taxi driver was caught dragged an unconscious passenger out of his black cab


The cabbie dragged the man out by his feet as he dumped him in Fenchurch Street, City of London


The cabbie then sped away from the scene of the shocking incident


The driver was later spotted walking back by the scene of the incident


City of London Police are now appealing for witnesses to come forward

According to a comment on the Sun's webpage the passenger was a drunk who had puked up and then passed out.

Which would hardly come as a great surprise to any driver.

All of which though seems to miss the point that, however we feel about these people, it's not a good idea to just dump them on the road, especially in a busy area with the inevitable CCTV cameras.

Then the driver returns to the scene on foot, speaks to another driver, then speaks to police but pretends he wasn't involved

Of course, the commenter is saying the passenger had passed out before he was pulled from the taxi, whereas the Evening Standard's version of events in particular claims it was the driver who knocked the person unconscious when he hit his head on the ground while being pulled from the taxi:



The video is inconclusive as far as I can see because it's one of those really jerky ones, but it certainly looks feasible to consider that the driver's actions knocked the passenger unconscious.

Video on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz9e081zJo

Would have thought that the driver was fairly easily to identify though:


City of London Police

just out of interest what you all have done ?

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Can't be many one legged drivers in London. Is it GBC?

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Grandad,

Depends on precisely what was happening in the cab, which is the big unknown.

But certainly wouldn't have done *that*, which is just asking for trouble.

Of course, wondering why the driver let the passenger in in the first place, but that's another thing that's always not that easy to judge correctly, and we can't know exactly what happened.

But apparently the incident happened at 6am, which is presumably why initially there's little evidence of any other people/activity apart from the other taxi drivers.

And it seems the body was lying in the road for 15 minutes before it was found by an off-duty police officer. So even excepting the individual driver, not good for the London trade's image.

How is that even possible when there were taxis all around? Did the other drivers just ignore the chap?

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Grandad,

Looks like it - if you look at the video on YouTube the door of the taxi mid-rank opposite opens, as if the driver is speaking to the driver while he was pulling the passenger out, or as if he was about to get out of the cab. But after a few seconds the door closes again, and the errant driver gets back into his taxi and drives off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz9e081zJo

It was ten minutes later when he returned on foot, and spoke to what looks like the driver who was behind the one who opened the door momentarily, then he walks away again. There were passers-by round the unconscious passenger at that point, and the off-duty police officer apparently appeared five minutes after that.

But it certainly looks like several minutes elapsed with the unconscious passenger lying on the road without the cabbies on the rank opposite doing anything.

At a rough guess I would imagine the driver drove to the rank and stopped opposite it in case he needed help from the other drivers, but obviously he didn't, and the other drivers just let him get on with it. He then just drove away and came back on foot to see what had happened to the passenger on the road

16 May it happened - wonder why it's taken so long to launch this appeal?

Have amended the above posts that referred to the video on various websites, but for anyone who couldn't brave the adverts etc, best place to view it is the official City of London Police version on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz9e081zJo

IIRC Neville drove or drives a Vito and works Heathrow in the main

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personally i would have phoned for an ambulance which might have brought the police as there is no way of knowing for sure that the passenger is unconscious through drink or through a mixture of drink and drugs which may be life threatening

It will be interesting to see what happens but I think this chap is about to take early retirement

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Same as he did. We are Taxi Drivers not personal carers.

Think I would have pulled him out the pavement side.

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