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They were probably also drunk. Sober people don’t get out of their taxi on the side of the interstate.
Okay, but what about the fact that the first dude in the pickup hit a person on the interstate and then didn’t bother to pull over…? >

Which is SO stupid. They never would have caught a charge if they stopped. No jurisdiction is going to hold you responsible for running into a drunk on the interstate at night, not if you were within your lane. Even if you were speeding. As long as you STOP. >

Unless they were also drunk or otherwise breaking the law.
Most people who run from hit and runs do so because they're going to eat a worse charge if they stay.
In most jurisdictions if you are driving drunk or with drugs in your car, the objectively better thing to do for your own self benefit is to go home, sober up and/or get rid of whatever illegal shit was in your car and then turn yourself in the next day or just wait for them to figure out it was you. The long-term penalties and consequences for leaving the scene of a fatal accident tend to be less severe than being confirmed to be impaired during that accident. Our laws basically incentivize people not to stop >

A girl in my class in highschool got drunk, drove to a party, hit and killed an older woman, continued to the party where she got more drunk and bragged about it. She ended up getting 15 days after a couple guys turned her in.
She had no remorse. She would always get into arguments, even before the accident. After it though she would yell shit like "I did 15 days for the last one, I'll give up a couple weeks to make you number two." And laugh about it and how she "got away with it because the idiots thought she was sorry." >

She from Florida and have a mermaids name? Cause if not then I have 2 nickles. >

Ohio and has a car manufacturer's name. >

That bitch Honda really knows how to run her mouth eh? >

Studebaker is a mean drunk. >

God damnit, Suzuki acting wild... >

Lamborghini looking mean in that bikini! >

Stop blaming the rideshare driver 

According to Thornton police, a woman was in the rideshare vehicle with friends and became ill. The driver pulled over and the passengers, who'd chosen to end the ride, paid and got out.

Also shit headline for making it seem like its his fault >

The driver didn't let them off on the side of the highway. He pulled over so they could puke. They canceled the ride from outside the car and it's not his job to wrestle them back into his car for their safety. He never intended to leave them, he stopped to keep driving them. Canceling the ride shows they intended to not ride in his car to safety.
The friend and deceased victim hold the blame as well as who hit the victim. The driver is 100% innocent. >

Not to mention that without a sanctioned ride by the service, you are forfeiting any insurance coverage in the result of an accident. I’ve had people cancel, I instantly pull over and tell them to leave. I’ve had to get out of my car and almost pull a woman out before because she would not leave. That is criminal trespassing. 
I am not going to get in a wreck and get sued and not be hopefully covered by my insurance and the service’s. >

You can cancel mid ride? >

Yeah i've miss put an address before and had to cancel mid ride.  Driver was cool af about it since I explained i was nauseous as hell from chemo and didnt pay enough attention booking the ride home.  
Driver hooked me up and said just tell me your address and took me home anyways.  Got home and went inside and got him cash for gas.
Another time I did the same exact thing but caught it right away.  Canceled the ride and rebooked before getting in and it was like a 2-3 dollar cancel penalty.  For some reason the app doesnt like to recognize my home address and trys to redirect to a nearby neighborhood like 30 percent of the time.  The fact that the near by place is named just like my street makes it so I gotta pay attention or else  Im getting dropped off a half mile away lol. >

You can adjust the destination without cancelling. >

Driver told me same thing but on uber I couldnt figure it out for life of me the few times its happened. 
This is a good reminder I should google how to do this before it happens again so ty. >


The driver pulled over and the passengers, who'd chosen to end the ride, paid and got out.

That could be a big part of a likely civil case.  With the details in the article, it sounds like she was drunk,  puked in the rideshare vehicle, and her friends wanted to end the ride and get out.  Poor decision to leave them on the side of a highway, but if the passengers choose to end the ride, could the driver also get in trouble for not stopping immediately?
Props to all the Uber and Lyft drivers out there.   No way in hell I could just let strangers in my car and hope for the best every trip. >

If the driver doesn't let you out wouldn't that just be kidnapping at that point? >

I'd be super interested to hear an actual lawyer's opinion on this. I was being dropped off at an airport undergoing extensive construction and the traffic was absolutely not moving (to the point where my driver turned his vehicle off) and I told the driver to just let me out because I could walk to the terminal faster but we were in a weird limited access area of the road (with concrete barricades on either side) that definitely wouldn't have been safe to walk on if the traffic had actually been moving. And he said he wasn't allowed to let me out and would be fined if he did. I have no idea if that's true or if he was just trying to get the last bit of $$$ out of the ride since he would be stuck in the traffic regardless.
Edit: just to be clear, I was not asking to be dropped off on the highway. We were already on the airport property. >

Airports are special, they have specific drop off points for passengers of ride-share/taxi. I could definitely see them issuing a fine to a driver for improper drop-off, especially with all the cameras to tag their license plates. >

As a former Lyft driver airports where the most regulated areas. I was threatened with a 200 dollar ticket if I picked up a family member without them using the Lyft app, because I had Lyft stickers on my car. >

Same. Got written a warning ticket for an uber sticker picking up my mom and her friend, hadnt driven for years. I didnt even "see" the sticker anymore at that point lol. >

How did the airport know they weren't using the app? >

My guess is because they had rideshare stickers on their cars but weren’t using the rideshare drop off point. >

BS then. If I'm not actively on the clock for my rideshare company then I'm perfectly free to pick up whoever I want in my personal vehicle for personal use. >

What if I had a pizza hut sticker? Woah woah bud you can't deliver here! >

What happened to her friends? Why didnt they watch out for her and keep her out of the highway?