From Action 6 News: By Annie McCormick NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An Uber driver struck and killed a woman who stepped in front of the car he was driving, police say. The accident happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday on the 2200 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia. Police say the unidentified woman [...]
From the New York Daily News A 24-year-woman hoping to catch an Uber ride home to Brooklyn after a night in the East Village stepped into the wrong car — and found herself robbed by an opportunistic creep who threatened to rape and shoot her, cops said Tuesday. The victim used her Uber phone app [...]
From Inc.: A Buzzfeed investigation suggests thousands of attacks. But Uber disputes the data, saying it has received only five claims of rape and fewer than 170 of sexual assault. Uber is no stranger to media attention for the behavior of its contracted drivers. But over the weekend, Buzzfeed published a story raising new questions about [...]
From CBS 58 It was just another walk home for Jessica Gradney Saturday night, when she says a man pulled up beside her on the corner of Booth and Meinecke. "He asked if I had ordered an Uber, and I said no," she says. "Then, he said 'what's your name? I said Shannon, which was [...]
From FOX 5 DC GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Montgomery County police have arrested an Uber driver for attempted murder after police said he tried to shoot two officers with a homemade weapon. Police have charged 52-year-old Jonathan Hemming with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder and other assault, firearms-related and [...]
From Click Orlando.com: The family of an Uber passenger killed in a deadly crash involving a Seminole County sheriff's patrol car has filed a negligence lawsuit against all of the parties involved. According to the Seminole County Clerk of Courts, the lawsuit was filed by the family of Corey Allicock, 28, who was killed in [...]
From the Washington Post Los Angeles police have arrested a man they say posed as an Uber driver and lured a woman waiting for a ride into his car, where he choked her unconscious several times and sexually assaulted her as police tried to rescue her. Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that 39-year-old Dartanyun Smith was arrested over the weekend [...]
From the Los Angeles Times Uber driver in Colorado was arrested Tuesday after he tried to break into the home of a passenger he had dropped off at an airport, Denver police said. Gerald Montgomery, 51, took the woman to Denver International Airport on Thursday, then returned to her home and “tried to break in [...]
From KHOU AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin Lyft driver was arrested March 8 for drunk driving in North Austin while he had a passenger in the vehicle. The passenger was Alex Grant who's been a Lyft customer for two years. "I use Lyft almost every day to get to work," said Grant. Grant was picked [...]
From MassLive HAMDEN, CONN - Adding to Uber's publicity woes following a driver's deadly shooting spree in Michigan last week, police have arrested a man they say raped a woman while posing as a driver for the company. Hamden police arrested 29-year-old Ahmad Bahjat of New Haven on Friday, according to a story published by [...]
