A taxi passenger claims a “creepy” driver tracked her down on social media and asked her out for a drink, more than three months after her journey.
Miniver Larman, 25, took the cab from the train station to her home in Oxford in March and had a “pleasant” chat with the driver.
She thought nothing of it until earlier this week when she received a message from the man asking if she wanted to go for a drink at the weekend.
The unwelcome greeting has left her feeling unsafe as the man knows her address.
She said: “When I saw the message I was just immediately shocked because you hear about these things happening but when it actually happens to you, you think how is this real?
“The journey was fine, we were just chatting away, he was telling me about his holiday and I was telling him about what I had been doing that day and I didn't think anything was off but it seems like he took that friendliness for something else.
“I started to feel unsafe about it because he dropped me off at my house.
"I think it's really unprofessional and puts, especially women, in a really dangerous position.
"How has this person not realised how creepy it is?”
The 15 minute journey totalled a pre-agreed fee of £15.60 and she thought nothing of it until she spotted a message request from the driver on June 12 - three months after the taxi fare.
The message read: "Hey! So since we had a lovely little chat in my taxi following your London Theatre trip, your name has pretty much stuck in my head.
"Hope you don't mind me messaging, I'm wondering if you might like to go for a beverage sometime…
"In fact there is really cool stuff going on in Southampton this weekend."
After making a complaint to Go Green Taxis, the company responded with a brief apology message and said it would be 'dealt with' - but Miniver is calling on them to discipline the driver.
A worker at the firm responded: "I'm sorry to hear you had this bad experience with us.
"I will pass this onto my manager to be picked up in the morning and dealt with in the correct manner."
She added: “You've trusted them with your address and you've trusted them to take you home safely and also, as a woman, it shouldn't be that if you are kind to someone that means you're coming onto them.
"I know there's that argument of how do you meet people if you can't do that during your job but I just don't think it's the place.
“When I saw the message I sent the company a message saying I feel like he might do this again and I just need him to know that it's not appropriate.
"I also asked them to block him from ever being assigned to me.
"They just said 'I'm sorry you've had this bad experience, I'll pass it onto a manager,' so I don't really know what's happening with it.
"I feel like he should at least be disciplined, like at least a month or two where he can't drive a taxi service.
"If he's done this to me there's a big likelihood that he's done this to other women or that he doesn't realise that it's not okay to do.”
Go Green has been approached for comment.
