Taxi driver bashed unconscious at Melbourne service station in unprovoked attack - ABC Online

Posted June 01, 2014 09:19:54

A taxi driver was bashed unconscious and his cab was trashed in an unprovoked attack at Spotswood in Melbourne's west.

The 35-year-old driver was filling up his cab with petrol at a service station on Melbourne Road around 1:10am (AEST) on Sunday when he was approached by a bald man wearing an Essendon football jumper.

The offender bashed the driver until he was unconscious before punching in the driver's window and breaking the side mirror.

Acting Sergeant Russell King says the taxi driver was taken to hospital with head injuries.

"It's a tough job at this time of night and there is no apparent motive," he said.

"[The attacker] just wandered up and started punching on with this taxi driver who's just filling up his cab, so it's far from nice."

Police want to hear from anyone who may have seen the attack.

Topics: assault, police, road-transport, spotswood-3015