CONCERNS: Bar Lane in Astley Bridge (Picture: Google Maps) and the top of a taxi, inset TAXI drivers are growing more worried over the number of attacks they are facing behind the wheel and are calling for more action to be taken to protect them. On Thursday, April 8 at around 8.30pm, a taxi was being driven on Marsey Road in Breightmet when a passenger assaulted him, leading the vehicle to crash into a tree. Two men then stole cash before leaving the taxi driver, who was taken to hospital. Then, in the early hours of Saturday, April 10 at around 3.30am on Bar Lane in Astley Bridge, a driver was strangled by a man before two others arrived and the victim was punched in the face and kicked in the ribs.