Taxi Driver Online

According to Google this trip is just over five miles, while the victim was apparently in the taxi for an hour.

However, it's not clear from the piece how it was concluded that the trip took an hour - the times specified are when he got into the taxi, and when he was found at the roadside, not precisely when he exited the vehicle.

Of course, there may be more information that isn't included in the article, or the newspaper may have (wrongly) concluded from the info supplied by police that the victim was in the cab for an hour.

But if I had to guess I'd say that the trip *didn't* take an hour, and that the victim came to grief somehow *after* exiting the cab


Shoreham man suffers mysterious facial injuries after hour-long taxi ride from Brighton

https://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/ ... -1-9091666

A Shoreham man has sustained mysterious facial injuries after an hour-long taxi journey home from Brighton.

Sussex Police is appealing for witnesses after the 58-year-old man was found by the side of Brighton Road, outside Lidl, at around 11.20pm on Friday, September 20. He was found to be suffering from facial injuries.

He had got into the taxi outside Small Batch Coffee, in Western Road, Brighton, at about 10.15pm, police said.

The man, who lives locally, made his own way home and reported the incident to the police, but the force has said it is still unclear how he sustained his injuries.

Investigator Melanie Haulkham said: "The circumstances are not yet clear. We are trying to establish how he got those injuries, which were cuts and bruises, and enquiries are also continuing to trace the taxi and driver. If anyone saw him get into the taxi in Brighton or saw the same man getting out of it near Lidl in Shoreham, please contact us either online or by calling 101, quoting serial 1660 of 20/09.

"In particular, if you drove past Lidl around those times on that Friday evening, could you please check any dashcam footage you may have? It could hold valuable information."

so my theory is sussex or his mate picked him up and when they got there he was fast asleep and they couldn't wake him to get their money after half an hour of trying they gave up and bundled him out of the car. He later woke up tripped banged his head and thought I know I'll claim the taxi driver did it and get a couple of thousand in compo to spend on more booze

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As I thought, the Sussex Police press release doesn't actually say that the victim was in the taxi for an hour, just that he got in the cab at 2215 and was found injured by passers-by at 2320.

So the newspaper's take makes it look more like the driver is suspected of wrongdoing.

Of course, maybe the driver is the prime suspect, and the newspaper could have been provided with more information than is contained in the press release, but who knows


Mystery of man found with facial injuries in Shoreham street

https://news.sussex.police.uk/news/myst ... eet-383324

Police are trying to solve the mystery of how a man came to sustain facial injuries after a taxi ride from Brighton to Shoreham.

At about 10.15pm on Friday 20 September the 58-year-old man got into a taxi in Western Road, Brighton, outside Small Batch Coffee, and was taken to the vicinity of Lidl in Brighton Road, Shoreham, where he was found by passers-by to be suffering from facial injuries by the side of the road at around 11:20pm.

The man, who lives locally, made his own way home from where he reported the incident to the police.

Investigator Melanie Haulkham said; "The circumstances are not yet clear. We are trying to establish how he got those injuries, which were cuts and bruises, and enquiries are also continuing to trace the taxi and driver. If anyone saw him get into the taxi in Brighton or saw the same man getting out of it near Lidl in Shoreham, please contact us either online or by calling 101, quoting serial 1660 of 20/09.

"In particular, if you drove past Lidl around those times on that Friday evening, could you please check any dashcam footage you may have? It could hold valuable information."

Too many variables to even hazard a guess what happened to the fella.

But whatever it was I suspect it happens throughout the UK each and every weekend.

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