VIDEO: Taxi Horror Stories

A fender-bender quickly turned into a double-assault nightmare for one Manhattan cabbie two years ago.

After being punched in the back of the head, Mohammed Abudakar chased his assaulter across Manhattan to the corner of 66th and York Avenue and kicked the snot out of him.

“I took his head when he was getting up and hit him with the partition,” Abudakar said. “I knocked him before he came out (of his taxi). That’s how the blood started oozing out.”

Abudakar was at a stop light with a passenger in the backseat when his neck snapped backward and he heard a clunk.

Another taxi had slammed into his back-bumper.

Abudakar jumped out to check the damage and noticed his car was fine, but the front of the other taxi was damaged. So he asked the other cabbie if he wanted to exchange insurance information. The other driver agreed and Abudakar climbed back into the driver’s seat and leaned over to the glove department to grab his paperwork.

The next thing Abudakar felt was the other cabbie’s knuckles bursting through the back of his skull.

“He hit me on the head while I was in an awkward position, knocking me, and my nose started bleeding,” Abudakar said.

The punch gave the other driver just enough time to race to his cab and speed away from the scene, hoping to avoid a ticket and fight.

“By then I was mad. That was a mistake,” Abudakar said. “I took off. I know karate…I was really angry.”

He followed the other driver from 66th street to 72nd street and cornered him.

“And fortunately, I had the upper-hand and beat the hell out of him, bad! But blood started coming out,” Abudakar said. “(He) couldn’t get up.”

Police blamed Abudakar for the brunt of the fight, and he was slapped with over $3,000 in fines, $2,000 in court expenses, a two-month suspension and one night in jail.

“The cops came and saw all the blood and said I took something and hit him,” Abudakar said. “They looked over and couldn’t find any object, a weapon or any kind…Just my fists.”

“They took me to court, I slept overnight in jail,” he added. “I had witnesses that said I followed him from one point to another point. That was my mistake. I should have called a cop.”

Abudakar called himself a “mild tempered person” who is generally “not a violent man,” but the sucker-punch ticked him off.

Abudakar said he lost his hair three years ago fighting all the stress of driving a cab, and he can’t wait for his retirement.

“It’s very difficult,” he said about driving a cab. “There’s a lot of pressure. 90 percent of the cab drivers, they have high blood-pressure. I’m one of them too.”