A TAXI driver says she had to take FIVE girls to hospital as a result of drink-spiking in just one week.
Carol Houchin, 45, who has been a cab driver in Lincoln for 20 years, was asked to take two girls to A&E after police told her they had been spiked.
Similarly, street pastors asked her to take three more girls to hospital for them to be treated.
The mother-of-three said the instances occurred during the University of Lincoln’s students’ Freshers Week – taking place on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening.
She told LincolnshireLive: “It was their first night out basically.
“It’s not very nice to witness at all, those girls were very vulnerable.”
Friends of one victim told Carol she they were students at the University of Lincoln, and had drunk the same amount as her friend but felt fine.
Carol said once she got the girls to A&E, she went to reception to explain the situation.
She said: “The girls were in no fit state to say anything.
“I got her checked in, I can’t just dump her in the middle of A&E and say right, off you go.
“I have to go the extra mile to help girls.”
Carol recalled that the safety of women in Lincoln has notably got worse recently – particularly since the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.
The cabbie said she has noticed how dark some streets are when dropping people off customers after a night out.
She now feels a certain responsibility as a cab driver in ensuring people in Lincoln return home safely.
Carol lives in Hemswell near Gainsborough and has three children, two of whom have left home and an 18-year-old son.
She also said she is known as the disco taxi in Lincoln, due to the lights on her taxi.
The news follows the Home Secretary ordering an update from police to discover how widespread “spiking epidemic” is.
Recent reports have found women are being drugged by men at nightclubs and parties using needles to inject ‘date-rape’ drugs.
One university student from Nottingham started to vomit and almost collapsed on a night out before finding a terrifying pin prick on her hand.
Sarah Buckle, 19, had been out on Freshers Week with friends when she was rushed to hospital after her hand started to throb.
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