Internet Brings Safer Travel

Travellers across the globe are now safer thanks to the launch of a Tees Valley website.

Whether people are getting into a taxi after a night out or hitch- hiking abroad, logmyjourney.com allows them to log the registration number of the vehicle.

Members text the registration number to the website using their mobile phone and tell the driver they have done so. This acts as a deterrent to wrongdoers and provides a evidence for police should anything untoward happen.

The launch of the journey-logging website follows an incident in Manchester earlier this month where a bogus taxi driver raped a 42- year-old woman.

Registration is free and members pay their normal network charge for each message.

Travel safety is the principal idea behind the site, which is the brainchild of Neil Greer, 39. Neil, who runs the site from Darlington, got the idea after a radio debate on hitch-hiking highlighted that it can be dangerous as well as fun.

He said: “Getting into a taxi or a stranger’s car after a night out – or especially hitch-hiking while on a gap year abroad – are activities fraught with danger and worry. Logging details of your journey on our computer takes a lot of the danger and anxiety away.”

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