EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A newly filed lawsuit in El Paso County accuses Uber Technologies, Inc. and one of its drivers of false imprisonment, assault, and gross negligence after a ride reportedly spiraled into a violent confrontation, leaving a mother and her two young children traumatized.
According to court filings, plaintiff Cynthia Sarabia, acting individually and on behalf of her two minor children, alleges that an Uber driver refused to let the family exit the car, drove recklessly at nearly 90 miles per hour on Interstate 10, and ultimately struck the mother and one of her children during a heated confrontation at a gas station in East El Paso.
The petition, filed April 1 in the 205th District Court of El Paso County, details what Sarabia’s attorneys describe as a “terrifying sequence of events that escalated into unlawful restraint and physical violence.”…