Police are appealing for public assistance after a taxi driver was stabbed by a passenger early this morning in Albury.<\/p>\n
Just before 4am (Sunday 28 December 2014), a 35-year-old taxi driver picked up a male passenger at a taxi rank near the corner of Olive and Dean Streets.<\/p>\n
As the cab approached Kurrajong Crescent in West Albury, the passenger got out and asked the driver to also get out; however he remained inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The passenger approached the driver\u2019s door and began stabbing the man, also damaging the vehicle\u2019s door before running off.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were contacted and the injured driver was assessed by Ambulance Paramedics and taken to Albury Base Hospital for treatment of four stab wounds to his arm and hand.<\/p>\n
Detectives from Albury Local Area Command are investigating the incident and are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n
The man has been described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, 25-30 years of age, unshaven, with a thin build and dark hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance after a taxi driver was stabbed by a passenger early this morning in Albury. Just before 4am (Sunday 28 December 2014), a 35-year-old taxi driver picked up a male passenger at a taxi rank near the corner of Olive and Dean Streets. As the cab approached Kurrajong Crescent in … Continue reading “Taxi driver stabbed – Albury”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}