Looking back at September 12, 1994
A West Wollongong taxi driver was rushed to hospital after passenger attacked him with a knife in the early hours.
The driver, in his 60s, normally drove the day shift but was filling in for his son who was on holidays.
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He picked up a man on the corner of the Princes Highway and Farmborough Road at Unanderra at 4.15am.
The passenger was taken to Albion Park Rail, where he pulled out a $20 but refused to pay.
A scuffle broke out and the man pulled a knife and slashed the driver's face and wrist.
The man then ran off and the driver hit the distress alarm in the taxi; other drivers who heard it sent police and ambulance.
During the attack, an artery in the driver's wrist was cut, leaking a lot of blood in the taxi.
He was taken to Shellharbour Hospital and then to Wollongong for surgery on his wrist.
Police ruled out robbery as a motive.
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Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
