Four teens arrested for Vic taxi assault
AAP
Four Melbourne teenagers are under arrest over an alleged assault on a taxi driver they refused to pay.
Police allege the two girls and two boys walked away without paying for a taxi ride to Wollert about 2.45am on Anzac Day.
The driver, 25, received serious head injuries and is in hospital after he attempted to restrain one of the boys and the others allegedly began punching him and kicking him.
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Witnesses called police who say the assault was still taking place when officers arrived.
A 17-year-old Carlton girl, a 16-year-old Mill Park girl, a 15-year-old Coburg boy and a 13-year-old boy from Reservoir are being interviewed for affray, recklessly causing injury, taxi-fare evasion and assault.
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