http://www.toomanytaxis.com Taxi Driver news and views Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:57:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/taxi-driver-died-after-drinking-pure-liquid-cocaine/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/taxi-driver-died-after-drinking-pure-liquid-cocaine/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:40:19 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3412 A man has gone on trial for manslaughter after a tragic chain of events led to a cab driver dying from a cocaine overdose.]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/taxi-driver-died-after-drinking-pure-liquid-cocaine/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/woman-in-taxi-%e2%80%98terror%e2%80%99-is-cleared/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/woman-in-taxi-%e2%80%98terror%e2%80%99-is-cleared/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:44:41 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3403 A woman who bit the hand and ear of a taxi driver who locked the doors and drove off with her trapped in the car has been cleared of assaulting him. Mother-of-two Holly Burnett, 24, fought against taxi driver Terry Thornton after he trapped her in his car and drove away from her home at high speed.......... ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/20/woman-in-taxi-%e2%80%98terror%e2%80%99-is-cleared/feed/ 1 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/19/taxi-drivers-attacked-in-brutal-assault-in-queensferry/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/19/taxi-drivers-attacked-in-brutal-assault-in-queensferry/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:01:21 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3397 TWO taxi drivers were beaten and stamped on in a brutal daylight assault at a cab rank. Seventy-year-old Flintshire cabbie John Evans was told he would get “the worst beating of his life” after warning two verbally abusive passengers they would have to leave the car. Fearing for his safety, he pressed an emergency......... ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/19/taxi-drivers-attacked-in-brutal-assault-in-queensferry/feed/ 2 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/17/taxi-robbery-sparks-police-search-for-suspects/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/17/taxi-robbery-sparks-police-search-for-suspects/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:36:01 +0000 Admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3381 TWO men are at the centre of a police search following an alleged robbery on a Doncaster taxi driver, which may have involved a knife. The incident happened on Friday June 4 at around 11.40pm when the 36-year-old taxi driver picked them up in Doncaster............. ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/17/taxi-robbery-sparks-police-search-for-suspects/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/14/taxi-driver-attacked-and-robbed-in-bridgwater/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/14/taxi-driver-attacked-and-robbed-in-bridgwater/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:18:33 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3367 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/14/taxi-driver-attacked-and-robbed-in-bridgwater/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/12/yob-hurls-paving-slab-through-taxi-windscreen/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/12/yob-hurls-paving-slab-through-taxi-windscreen/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:14:22 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3353 A taxi driver and his passenger escaped serious injury after a yob threw a paving slab through the windscreen of the vehicle as it travelled through Preston...........]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/12/yob-hurls-paving-slab-through-taxi-windscreen/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/09/newcastle-taxi-driver-assaulted-after-drop-off/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/09/newcastle-taxi-driver-assaulted-after-drop-off/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:01:43 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3348 A TAXI driver was left with serious facial injuries after he was assaulted by two men he dropped off in Bedlington. The 28-year-old victim had picked up the pair outside Toon takeaway in the Cloth Market, Newcastle]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/09/newcastle-taxi-driver-assaulted-after-drop-off/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/01/gun-fanatic-jailed-for-30-years-for-murder-of-taxi-driver/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/01/gun-fanatic-jailed-for-30-years-for-murder-of-taxi-driver/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:45:32 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3305 A gun fanatic who lured a total stranger to a deserted, rural railway station and shot him dead was jailed for a minimum of 30 years yesterday. Colin Cheetham, 61, of Ripley, Derbyshire, had been convicted of murdering a taxi driver................. ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/07/01/gun-fanatic-jailed-for-30-years-for-murder-of-taxi-driver/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/28/tyneside-cabbie-had-noose-put-round-his-neck/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/28/tyneside-cabbie-had-noose-put-round-his-neck/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:22:54 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3188 A TAXI driver today told of the terrifying moment he had a gun held to his head in a robbery by thugs calling themselves the Walker bomber boys. Thomas Grimes and Mark Clews targeted two cabbies who had picked them up, trying to throttle one of them with rope and threatening him with a gun. Taxi drivers Mark Vainola and David Vincent have been left scared to pick up passengers after their ordeals on the same night. Grimes and Clews put rope round the neck of.......... ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/28/tyneside-cabbie-had-noose-put-round-his-neck/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/02/uk-taxi-driver-kills-12-wounds-25-in-england/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/02/uk-taxi-driver-kills-12-wounds-25-in-england/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:09:12 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3054 A taxi driver went on a shooting spree across a rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, police said, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. The rampage in Cumbria was the deadliest mass shooting since 1996 in Britain........... ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/06/02/uk-taxi-driver-kills-12-wounds-25-in-england/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/28/clitheroe-taxi-driver-arrested-over-alleged-sexual-assaults/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/28/clitheroe-taxi-driver-arrested-over-alleged-sexual-assaults/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 01:57:50 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3029 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/28/clitheroe-taxi-driver-arrested-over-alleged-sexual-assaults/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/26/cumbrian-man-sick-in-taxi-attacked-driver/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/26/cumbrian-man-sick-in-taxi-attacked-driver/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:47 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=3026 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/05/26/cumbrian-man-sick-in-taxi-attacked-driver/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/28/taxi-driver-shot-in-the-back-in-liverpool-street/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/28/taxi-driver-shot-in-the-back-in-liverpool-street/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:04:38 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=2894 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/28/taxi-driver-shot-in-the-back-in-liverpool-street/feed/ 0 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/05/dodgy-driver-or-bogus-taxi-gateshead-sex-attack/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/05/dodgy-driver-or-bogus-taxi-gateshead-sex-attack/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:59:26 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=2749 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/04/05/dodgy-driver-or-bogus-taxi-gateshead-sex-attack/feed/ 34 http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/03/08/man-jailed-for-attack-on-gravesend-taxi-driver/ http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/03/08/man-jailed-for-attack-on-gravesend-taxi-driver/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:45:23 +0000 News admin http://www.toomanytaxis.com/?p=2548 A man has been jailed for an indeterminate period for a brutal attack on a defenceless taxi driver in Kent. Driver Gordon Bailey, of Gravesend, was left with serious facial injuries after the assault. ]]> http://www.toomanytaxis.com/2010/03/08/man-jailed-for-attack-on-gravesend-taxi-driver/feed/ 0