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Taxi driver dumps woman on Ipswich Motorway.- 27/3/2009

THERE is outrage this morning after a female taxi passenger was hospitalised following an incident at Goodna late last night when a cab driver dumped the woman on a darkened stretch of the Ipswich Motorway.

The 30-year old woman was so traumatised by the incident she required treatment at the Ipswich Hospital after collapsing at the scene of the incident.

Two truck drivers who were returning from the scene of an unrelated four-vehicle crash heard terrified cries coming from behind a concrete barrier near the Gailes Caravan Park adjacent to Woogaroo Creek.

Just before midnight, a distraught well-dressed woman stumbled out through a wire fence screaming hysterically and calling for help from the drivers.

She said the taxi driver had dumped her after she had caught the cab from Brisbane to go to her parents` home at Riverview.

The two truck drivers said the woman was hysterical as she emerged from behind the concrete wall.

When she got to Goodna, the meter read almost $60 and she told the driver she had only that amount on her and her parents would pay the extra when she got home.

He refused and forced her to get out of the taxi in a lonely stretch of the Motorway between Woogaroo Creek and Bertha Street Goodna.

After she was rescued by the two-truck operators, her father came and collected her from the nearby BP Service Station at Brisbane Road Goodna.

Police officers who were investigating the earlier vehicle incident spoke to the woman and advised her to make an official complaint to the taxi company.

The two truck drivers then alerted Goodna Councillor Paul Tully about the incident saying it was the most-disgraceful treatment they had ever witnessed of a female taxi passenger.

Cr Tully said it was despicable that the cab driver had forced the woman out of his cab in the middle of the Ipswich Motorway.

"This is a very dark area of the Motorway and the woman had to climb a concrete barrier to protect herself from vehicles flashing by at 90kph.

"She lay there frightened as the taxi driver sped off back to Brisbane.

"This driver is the most-callous man in Brisbane and should have his taxi driver`s licence revoked for what he did to this woman.

"I will be encouraging her to make an official complaint over the outrageous way she was dumped beside the Motorway.

"This is the same stretch of the Ipswich Motorway where 20-year old Riverview woman Sharron Phillips disappeared without trace in May 1986," Cr Tully said.


 

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