Charles and Lisa Onyigbuo are suing Uber after a driver recommended by the ride-sharing platform used their vehicle to commit a string of armed robberies in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the Sunday Times reports.<\/p>\n
The couple employed an Uber driver who called himself “Ian Jordaan” to drive their BMW 3 series, sharing in the driver’s profits.<\/p>\n
Jordaan began working for the couple on 16 January, and for the first week the couple received regular receipts showing he had completed a number of trips.<\/p>\n
After the invoices stopped coming in on 28 January however, the couple visited Jordaan’s landlord and discovered that the man was using a false identity.<\/p>\n
Jordaan’s real name was Dean Dube, and the landlord showed the couple a copy of Dube’s Zimbabwean passport to confirm his identity.<\/p>\n
Hawks investigators then informed the couple that their car had been used by a crime syndicate to commit multiple armed robberies, culminating in a final heist and shootout between police and gang members.<\/p>\n
Seven robbers and two police officers were killed in the confrontation, and the Onyigbuos’ vehicle was littered with around 20 bullet holes when it was recovered by the police.<\/p>\n
The couple has joined a class-action lawsuit against Uber, blaming the ride-hailing platform for the damage to their vehicle and the failure to perform a proper background check on the driver they hired.<\/p>\n
Uber told the Sunday Times it was not aware of the couple’s complaint, but stated it was concerned about the incident and was investigating the matter.<\/p>\n
Ulrich Roux Attorneys confirmed it is representing 13 clients, including the Onyigbuos, in a class-action lawsuit against Uber.<\/p>\n
Ulrich Roux stated last week<\/strong><\/a> that he was representing a number of users pursuing a class-action lawsuit against Uber.<\/p>\n The lawsuit concerns a number of violent incidents which occurred via the Uber platform or in an Uber vehicle, which Roux said Uber has chosen to ignore.<\/p>\n He added that it was important to remember that passengers are getting into a vehicle with a complete stranger when using one of these taxi services.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, when these users entered those vehicles they were doing so under the premise that Uber promises to offer a safe and reliable service.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cClearly in these instances that was not the case and there is now a case of vicarious liability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n A couple are suing Uber after a driver recommended by the ride-sharing platform used their vehicle to commit a string of armed robberies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":108700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[58050,57914,9695,35,40302],"class_list":["post-299578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-armed-robberies","tag-class-action-lawsuit","tag-crime","tag-headline","tag-uber-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299580,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299578\/revisions\/299580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Gautrain vs Uber \u2013 The cheapest way to beat traffic<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"