Uber driver, taking a couple home, attacked in Ballito

An Uber driver was threatened, pulled out of the car and attacked by a group of men while driving a local couple home after a night out in Ballito in the early hours of this morning.

The recently engaged Jayden Blesovsky and Megan White were picked up by an Uber at Irish Oak just after midnight, when the driver was forced to stop.

“A big man stood in the road and stopped the car near Crush. Two or three other men ran to the car and started banging on the door, asking the driver if this is an Uber.

“I told the driver to say he is private, which he did,” said Blesovsky.

He said the guys walked away and the driver kept going, but a couple metres down the road, a silver Hilux double cab pulled up in front of them, forcing the driver to stop again.

“Another car stopped behind us and about eight guys got out of the two cars and charged at the driver’s door. I grabbed my fiancé and we made a run for it. Luckily a friend of mine, Micheal Pearce, lives in the road, so we jumped over his fence.”

Meanwhile, the Uber driver was reportedly badly beaten up by the men who eventually drove away.

The couple went back outside to check on the driver and Brad Hort from Mozambik restaurant was on his way home and “saw us standing on the pavement and gave us a lift home.”

Blesovsky said he has spoken to the driver since the incident and that he said he is safe and not too seriously injured.

Do you want to receive news alerts via WhatsApp? Send us a WhatsApp message (not an sms) with your name and surname to 061 718 4438.

Please read our WhatsApp broadcast list disclaimer.
Join us on BBM at 59015786
Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram