From the Dallas Morning News Uber and the city of Dallas disagreed Saturday on whether a driver for the ride-sharing service who is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in west Oak Cliff a week ago was allowed to drive for the company in Dallas. Meanwhile, court records show that the driver, 56-year-old Talal Ali [...]
From TIME A driver for ride-sharing app Uber was arrested Monday night for allegedly masturbating while ferrying a 25-year-old woman through the eastern Indian city of Kolkata earlier this month. News of the incident comes weeks after a female passenger in the Indian capital New Delhi made a similar allegationagainst a driver working for TaxiForSure, [...]
From the Boston Globe In a dramatic break in a series of unsolved attacks, a former Uber driver accused of raping a passenger in December has been linked by DNA evidence and witness accounts to five other sexual assaults on the Charles River Esplanade and in South Boston between 2006 and 2010, authorities said Tuesday. [...]
From ABC 7 Eyewitness News CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team is reporting exclusively on an Uber driver who was removed from the platform after his criminal record was exposed. Uber's background checks failed to catch past crimes and traffic violations. Uber says it approves 10,000 drivers a year, and hundreds of them get rejected [...]
From the Courthouse News Service (CN) - A Virginia mother claims in a lawsuit that her 13-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver whom she'd previously complained about due to his inappropriate behavior. In a complaint filed in Virginia Beach, Va., the unidentified mother says her daughter downloaded the Uber app to her [...]
From GeekWire Lyft deactivated a driver in Seattle after police say he demanded sex from a rider before dragging her beside his car as she tried to retrieve her lost phone. The Seattle Police Departmentdescribed the incident here, which happened early Saturday morning around 1:30 a.m. in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. After being dropped off [...]
From Gothamist An Uber driver in New Jersey has been fired after he locked himself in the backseat with a drunken female passenger and started fondling himself. "The driver has been permanently removed from the Uber platform for his inappropriate behavior, and we have reached out to the rider to apologize for such an uncomfortable [...]
From India.com In yet another incident in the national capital Uber can driver allegedly molested a female passenger in Gurgaon. The woman alleged that the Uber driver tried to forcefully kiss her and molest while she was in the cab. Uber has now suspended the driver and will be looking into the matter directly. Delhi [...]
From the Globe and Mail A Mississauga Uber driver is facing a charge of sexual assault after allegedly assaulting a female passenger this week. According to York Regional Police, the assault happened early Sunday morning, after a woman and her two friends used the ride-sharing app to arrange a pickup from a downtown Toronto nightclub. [...]
From CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A woman said she had escaped from an Uber car early Thursday, after the driver started to assault her. The woman spoke exclusively to CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco. She was still too shaken to be on camera or have her name used. “My only fault that night was [...]