Recently a Murcia taxi driver was injured in his taxi.He was stabbed by one of his fares.In Benidorm last week more than 150 taxi drivers blocked the entrance into the town’s bus station to give a statement of solidarity and to ask for greater protection for all taxi drivers.

The taxi drivers arrived at the bus station at about noon and once they had organised themselves a statement in support of their colleague in Murcia.The statement was read in front of the president of the taxi drivers association.He then told them that being a taxi driver can at times be a very dangerous occupationand that it has very little if any real security .He called on the authorities to come up with some plan to standardise taxis so that security inside them could be improved.

He also called for government subsidies to help drivers to install security systems.To instal one into the town’s 232 taxis would cost about 600,000 euros.