Terrible: Elderly Taxi Passenger Gets Hit In The Face By A Brick!

A female pensioner in her 70s sustained a fractured skull when yobs threw bricks at the Birmingham taxi she was in, her driver has claimed. West Midlands Police is re-appealing for information on the attack, which also saw seven cars damaged during a vandalism spree on 25 May.

The woman had been out enjoying a family member's birthday and was travelling along Bellevue Road at around 10pm when, what police described as, a stone smashed through a window of the taxi, hitting her on the head. She was taken to hospital where she was treated for a fractured skull.

A number of other cars were also damaged after the gang threw stones at passing taxis. Police were granted an emergency order allowing officers to remove groups of people from the area who were thought to be involved in anti-social behaviour. Posted By PSmooth