{"id":30278,"date":"2019-09-18T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30278"},"modified":"2019-09-18T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:21:49","slug":"neighbours-help-driver-from-violent-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/18\/neighbours-help-driver-from-violent-thugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours Help Driver from Violent Thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brave neighbours ran to help a carjacking victim as masked thugs violently tried to pull him from his Mercedes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 408px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30278-1\" width=\"408\" height=\"720\" loop autoplay preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Attempted-Car-Jacking-on-Yardley-Green-Rd-Birmingham.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Attempted-Car-Jacking-on-Yardley-Green-Rd-Birmingham.mp4\">https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Attempted-Car-Jacking-on-Yardley-Green-Rd-Birmingham.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The victim was stopped outside his house on Yardley Green Road.<\/p>\n<p>A shocking video has emerged as the thugs smash the driver-side window and begin attacking the terrified driver<\/p>\n<p>The thugs can be seen lashing out at the motorist, as he remains behind the wheel of his black Mercedes A-class.<\/p>\n<p>The driver clings on to his car as members of the public race to the scene to help and the attackers flee.<\/p>\n<p>They can be seen climbing into two cars, thought to be a Nissan Almera and Honda Jazz, before slowly driving away.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific attack happened shortly before 7.30pm on Monday, September 9.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Police are investigating an attempted robbery on Yardley Green Road in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham just before 7:30pm on Monday (September 9).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man was driving his Mercedes along the road when he noticed a car pull up close behind him and another which sharply stopped in front of his car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A group of men exited the cars and smashed his driver-side window, before assaulting him and attempting to pull him from the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The men made their escape when residents on the road intervened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enquiries continue and anyone with information is asked to contact us via Live Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am and midnight or call 101 anytime, quoting crime reference 20BE\/214584N\/19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crimestoppers can be called anonymously on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave neighbours ran to help a carjacking victim as masked thugs violently tried to pull him from his Mercedes. The victim was stopped outside his house on Yardley Green Road. A shocking video has emerged as the thugs smash the driver-side window and begin attacking the terrified driver The thugs can be seen lashing out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[264,1362,2323,1356,2322],"class_list":["post-30278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-bordesley-green","tag-neighbours","tag-west-midlands-police","tag-yardley-green-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}