A taxi firm is being investigated following claims a driver left a group of children alone in a car during a school run while he went to pray in a mosque.
A driver for taxi company Tiger Taxis, based in Clitheroe, has been accused of ‘negligence’ after a group of children, believed to be between 12 and 14, were left alone in one of the firm’s taxis while dropping them home from Coal Clough Academy, in Burnley after 1pm on Friday.
Tiger Taxis is contracted to provide transport for school children from the Swindon Street academy by Lancashire County Council.
The taxi driver is alleged to have gone to the mosque after he received a phone call from one of his friends who told him it was “time to go and pray” while the children were being driven home in the taxi.