Posted on 04/12/2020 11:57:40 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
An Uber passenger was killed Saturday when she walked into the path of oncoming traffic on the eastbound Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway in Mission Hills after she allegedly assaulted the driver and was physically removed from the vehicle.
Officers received a call about a pedestrian sitting in the No. 3 lane of the freeway at 12:30 a.m. and responded to a location just east of Sepulveda Boulevard at 12:45 a.m. and were told the pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle and died at the scene, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A preliminary investigation determined the woman was a passenger in a Honda Accord when she began assaulting the Uber driver, causing small cuts and breaking the driver's glasses as he drove the woman home, the CHP said.
The Uber driver pulled to the right shoulder of the freeway and exited the vehicle to try to remove the woman from the car when the woman jumped over the center console and into the driver's seat and attempted to drive away.
The driver removed the keys from the ignition and attempted to pull the woman out of the vehicle, the CHP said.
The driver managed to get the woman out of the car and she continued assaulting him until he was able to get back into the car and pull away, at which time, for unknown reasons, the woman walked from the shoulder of the freeway and into lanes of traffic where she was struck by at least one vehicle, described as a 2008 Nissan Altima, and killed, the CHP said.
The sequence of events remain under investigation, the CHP said.
The woman's name was not disclosed and no arrests were reported.
Anyone who witnessed the collision or the events leading up to it was asked to call the CHP's West Valley office at 818-888-0980.
I am guessing that the female passenger was very drunk...
A few years ago, a male passenger attacked the Uber driver. The driver kicked the passenger out of his car...The passenger was killed on the freeway...
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Yikes
The moral of the story is, if you are an Uber driver, don't try to remove an unruly passenger from the car. Let the police do it.
I know it cuts into the amount of money the driver is going to make, but there are just too many ways it can go wrong.
Dont take drunk passengers.
Darwin wins again...
One of those ‘Guess the Race’ posts?
This is going to keep lawyers busy for years.
The moral of the story is, if you are an Uber driver, don’t try to remove an unruly passenger from the car. Let the police do it.
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I don’t think the driver had a choice in this case...The driver should not keep on driving while he is being punched in the face...He could have crashed his car...He and the passenger could both have been killed in that case...
One of those ‘Guess the Race’ posts?
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No pics, no names.
Failing to see the problem here. She played a stupid game, won the stupid prize. At least this (assumed) Karen won’t be attacking anyone else.
Jasmin Recendiz Morales
Those damn ‘08 Nissan Altima’s are deadly.
Agreed. This was self defense and protecting the public.
Whoa ... mess with the driver, you get the horns.
Karen?
Uh, drunk or on drugs?
lol
She broke his glasses. Can’t legally operate the vehicle if it’s on his license.
If she was robbing him with a knife instead of just repeatedly assaulting him, would there be any questions?
Hitting the driver on the highway is a good way to try to cause a car crash.
Or mentally ill. Or all three plus other possibilities....Did the driver do something to her that enraged her? Does driver sell drugs on the side and give her some?
Total mess.
You got to go where you wanna go...do what you wanna do..../s
We used to tell the younger kids who would pester us older kids when we didn’t have anything to do and we’d jokingly tell them to “Go play in the traffic”...Even an 11 yeard-old should know better than to think that all freeway traffic will come to a screeching halt just because he or she decides to suddenly walk directly into it.
On Christmas eve a few years ago, an Uber driver attacked a good friend’s nephew with a knife as they were on their way home from a Christmas party. According to the driver, the nephew dissed his car........
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