QLD Fella Takes The Wheel Of His Taxi After Driver Blacks Out On Freeway

There is no moment while traveling so pure, so fragile, as the trip between airport and hotel: you’re either intoxicated on the possibilities of unfurling trip, or so goddamn tired that quietly slinking into the passenger seat of a late-model Camry is your sole purpose in life. 

What we mean to say is that airport-to-hotel taxi rides shouldn’t require passengers to commandeer the vehicle, especially after the cab’s driver has passed out not once, but twice. 
That’s what one unlucky Queenslander was subjected to last night, after touching down at Melbourne Airport.

The 43-year-old hailed a cab to his Southbank hotel, only for the 24-year-old driver to lose consciousness on the Tullamarine Freeway, smacking into a series of concrete bollards in the process.

The driver asserted he was okay – and presumably after minimal damage to the vehicle – and the pair continued. For a little while. 
After the driver passed out a second time, inadvertently pointing the vehicle towards another concrete barrier in the process, the driver was forced to pull the handbrake. 
Instead of risking it with a clearly struggling driver, the guy volunteered to just drive the cab himself. Placing the cabbie in the passenger’s seat, he proceeded without incident to his City Road digs.
Upon arrival around 10pm, he called the cops. As you would.
Victoria Police say the driver is expected to be charged on summons with a slew of offences related to the incident.

On top of the obvious traffic mayhem he would have caused, and the potential loss of life, we’d like to add “serious harshing of travel vibes” to the list of offences.


Source: The Herald Sun / Victoria Police.
Photo: The Fifth Element.

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