Radio host will talk to police over her horror taxi ride

Radio host Jay-Jay Harvey has alleged she was assaulted by an Auckland taxi driver after leaving a bar in Ponsonby.

The broadcaster and author posted about her “uncomfortable experience” yesterday morning but did not contact police at the time.

Later yesterday police got in touch with Harvey, who agreed to make a statement when she had calmed down.

On Facebook, Harvey said she got in the cab after leaving a bar in Ponsonby.

“The driver was very forward with his conversation with me and asked a lot of personal questions, which I tried to answer without giving too much away. He kept asking me if he could touch my breasts and kept holding my hand which I promptly let go of each time.”

Harvey said she was laughing at the driver to “make him assume” she thought he was joking.

Harvey said she used her access card to get into her building, and “bolted up the stairs”, leaving the driver behind.

“I got inside safely and watched out the window as he stood in the middle of the street looking up trying to figure out which flat I was in,” she said.

Harvey said she was “shaking a bit and worried about what could have happened”.

Harvey later said that she regretted posting about the incident.

Police had been in contact with her, and she agreed to make a statement once she had “calmed down enough”.