a friend of mine had an extremely scary journey on Saturday night/ Sunday Morning. 22nd/23rd January 2012
She and a another female friend got in a taxi about 2am at the taxi rank by Casa, The driver had on a hat pulled down and a collar pulled up and would not talk to them at all. They were heading for Cannock and whilst the driver drove over the chase he kept slowing down and indicating to pull over and would not reply when they asked what he was doing.
The girls asked to see his ID, which he was going to go and get from the boot on the road in the middle of cannock chase, Naturally they declined, by this time one of the girls was screaming and crying and luckily for them a police car pulled in behind them at the little haywood turnoff on the lichfield road and followed them almost to Cannock. They eventually got dropped off, not at, but near one of their homes - The doors and windows had been locked by the driver for the entire journey and they could not get out of the car at any point, they were so scared they armed themselves with anything in their bags.
The driver didnt ask for payment but said 'must have been your lucky night' when they got out of the car.
The person this happened to is a level headed, business woman who is not prone to hysteria, she really did feel in danger and is sure things would have ended badly had the police car not appeared and followed them.
The driver did not seem to know the area well, had a standard white car, was at the Marshalled Taxi rank in town.
The incident has been reported to the police and they are reviewing CCTV, if you have any information please contact Stafford Police.
I SUGGEST THAT WE ALL ASK FOR ID FROM NOW ON!! VERY SCARY.