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Terror stalks truck routes
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A driver a week is hit by hijackers. Jennifer Ball reports.
HORRIFYING NEW evidence has emerged of the scale of driver hijackings in Britain — new figures released by TruckPol show that at least one driver a week is subject to these terrifying attacks (see page 30).
Highlighting these shocking statistics is the news this week of two more serious assaults on truck drivers In the first incident at 1 lpm last Wednesday (10 September) a Business Post driver was stopped by bogus policemen in Cheshire and then threatened with a shotgun:111e driver was later released in Rainhill. Merseyside. where he went to a nearby house and raised the alarm.
The truck was later recovered minus its unspecified load at Haydock Park Cottage Haulage Yard in Newton-le-Willows.
In the second attack two men kidnapped and robbed a driver of his load of wine and spirits in Birmingham.
The driver was travelling on the Aston Expressway at around 8.30am last Wednesday when a white Transit-type van pulled in front of his vehicle, forcing him to stop.
Two men jumped into the cab and ordered him to hand over his keys. When he refused he was beaten and the keys taken. The victim was driven in his truck to a nearby street in Aston, where his cargo was unloaded and driven away in another vehicle. The offenders then drove the truck to Canwell, where they abandoned it with him inside.
Just two weeks ago CM reported on the case of Colin Murphy who was hijacked at gunpoint after stopping to offer help at an accident scene.
• Contact: Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.