The police of the city Hilton head in South Carolina said that 2 women are very lucky to be intact when they fled from the imaginary driver of Uber, zalezshego them on a country road and whatevero the phone when they threatened to call 911.
As CNN reports, 2 women, whose names are not called, told the County Sheriff’s office Beaufort, on Friday they called the Uber car to the restaurant and they were approached by a man in a dark SUV.
Women knew that they were not the driver of Uber, but they thought that they saw the Uber sign on the windshield, so sat inside.
The passenger (one sat on the front seat, and the other at the rear) called the driver the address of their cottage on the southern edge of the island, where they stopped. They didn’t understand that he drove North until we were completely unfamiliar country road and felt that something is wrong.
.@UofSC student Samantha Josephson was born in New Jersey, which just passed a law similar to the one S. C. lawmakers drafted to improve rideshare safety. https://t.co/v9hTwgD6Jy
— Avery Wilks (@AveryGWilks) June 21, 2019
The woman sitting in the front, said that he had told the driver that will call 911, and then he snatched her phone and stopped his SUV.
All three got out of the car and the man approached the women. The woman was able to take away from man his phone and dialed 911. After that, the man jumped into his car and quickly sped away. In a few minutes the police arrived.
The police have not found the location and did not identify the identity of the driver. They don’t know whether it is a real driver or Uber driver with the same company.
In memory of Samantha Josephson, Gov. Murphy signed my bipartisan legislation into law to require proper signage; and the implementation of a barcode system. #SamisLaw
We must ensure tragedies like this never happen again. pic.twitter.com/2JYOtasclo
— Senator Tom Kean (@tomkean) June 21, 2019
The representative of the company Uber Grant Klinzman doubted that this incident is connected with the company and reminded about the April story about the push notifications are used to fight pseudo-drivers.
This spring, less than a month after the death of a student from South Carolina who sat in the car, which she thought applies to Uber, the authorities have created a bill that requires that cars of similar sites have demonstrated the illuminated signs, so that passengers can easily distinguish the cars of its drivers. The Senate approved the bill a month later, he added a clause stating that drivers must also show the registration number of the car in front of cars, and those who will impersonate Uber drivers and similar sites will be fined or convicted. The bill was signed in may and entered into force in June.
