Guelph Uber driver charged with sexual assault
From CBS News A Guelph Uber driver has been charged with sexual assault, police say. Officers began investigating sexual assault allegations on March 7 after the female victim came forward to police. Toronto Uber driver charged with [...]
Uber driver is accused of raping a woman he picked up from a bar in Orange County
From the Los Angeles Times Prosecutors are seeking possible victims connected to an Uber driver who has been charged with raping a female passenger after he picked her up from a bar in Fullerton. Omar [...]
2 area Uber drivers face sexual assault charges
From the Lansing State Journal EAST LANSING – Two Uber drivers have been charged in connection with sexual assaults in East Lansing in January and February. Hassan Ibrahim, 48, faces one count of fourth-degree criminal [...]
Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping
From the Washington City Paper A little gas can cause big trouble. Sedan service Uber finds itself the subject of a lawsuit—-and with one fewer driver—-after a customer's burp allegedly sent the driver into anti-American, [...]
Knife Attack Claims Survive Uber Motions
From the Courthouse News Service (CN) - Uber must face negligence claims from a customer who says he was attacked with a knife by one of its drivers, a federal judge ruled. Erik Search used [...]
Uber CEO on Driver “Assault”: It’s Not Real and We’re Not Responsible
From ValleyWag Late Saturday night, Bridget Todd, a writer, activist, and former lecturer at Howard University, tweeted at taxi dispatch startup Uber that she'd been choked by the driver she'd ordered on Uber's smartphone app—apparently [...]
Cabbies Push Back Against Uber and Lyft
From LA Weekly It was a Friday night in June when former Lyft driver Yago Rodriguez picked up four women in Santa Monica outside the Buffalo Club and unknowingly drove his vehicle into a sly [...]
Uber customer claims abuse and assault by driver. Uber confirms: yes, he drives for us
From Pando A San Francisco man has told PandoDaily that he was verbally abused and physically assaulted by an UberX driver Saturday night, and has shared video and documentary evidence to support his account. [UPDATE: [...]
Exclusive Video: Lyft Driver Allegedly Attacks Pedestrian
From NBC Bay Area The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has obtained video that appears to show a Lyft driver punching a pedestrian. The video comes to light just weeks after a driver for Uber [...]