The Guardian reported a letter from the London Metropolitan Police’s taxi and private hire team, complaining that Uber failed to timely report drivers attacking passengers. “Had Uber notified police after the first offence, it would be right to assume that the second would have been prevented,” the letter explained. The letter said that Uber failed to report sexual assaults as well as an incident in which a driver “produced what was thought to be pepper spray during a road rage argument.”
Uber driver in Leeds rejected wheelchair passenger, caught on video
In an interaction captured in video by a passenger, a Leeds, UK Uber driver decline refused to transport a passenger in a wheelchair. The passenger reported that the driver said “Disabled people need disabled car[s]” and drove off.
Fined for unlawful operations in France
A French court fined Uber €800,000, and fined two Uber managers €30,000 and €20,000, personally, in response to the company’s unlawful operations in France.
Managers taken into custody for running an illegal taxi company
When Uber operated in Paris in violation of applicable law, Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Uber Europe GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were both arrested. Details.