Forcibly Kicked Out of an Uber/Lyft by the Driver

Forcibly Kicked Out, Thrown Out and Removed from An Uber/Lyft by the Driver

It is incredulous to believe that a person can book a ride with an Uber or Lyft, only to be thrown out of the car by an angry driver a few minutes later. It seems incredible to relay this situation, and yet there are people who are seriously injured from being forcibly ejected from an Uber or Lyft vehicle. People who are kicked out of an Uber/Lyft vehicle sustain many serious injuries. If a person is kicked forcibly out of a rideshare vehicle, it is typical to have uncommon run-over injuries, crushing injuries and serious injuries that are typical of fractures to the body.

If you are kicked out of a car, you can sustain:

• Pelvic and hip fractures
• Internal bleeding in the abdomen
• Crushing injuries to the spine being run over by a car
• Crushing injuries to the legs, arms, hands and feet
• Amputations of arms, legs and fingers
• Crushing fractures in the feet, arms and legs
• Crushed lacerations
• Underlying major damage to the blood vessels
• Abrasions to the hands, knees, legs, face and arms
• Road rash or road burns to the limbs

When a person is forced out of a rideshare vehicle, the individual is now a pedestrian who can be run over by a car. The person forced from a vehicle can have serious and life-threatening injuries that crush the body, such as penetrating traumas, vascular damage and crushing injuries that produce internal bleeding.

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Often after a crushing injury, the skin in the area of the trauma starts to die. This will require painful skin grafting in an attempt to save the person’s use of the limb. If there is permanent tissue damage and lack of blood flow to the arm or leg or area of the crush injury, that limb may need to be amputated. The microvascular flow of blood into the capillaries needs to be maintained at a constant rate, or the tissues start to die from lack of blood supply. There can be permanent damage to muscle tissue in less than 8 hours.

Any time that there is a serious crushing injury, the entire body responds to it and can be traumatized as a result of the injury. In some people, the muscles will start to die from a lack of blood flow, and will emit toxins to the blood. These toxins react to the organs and can cause renal dysfunction, issues with flood flow and can cause complications such as:

• Cardiotoxicity
• Renal failure
• Sepsis
• Multi-organ failure
• Death

Crushing injuries also pose a high risk of infection. When muscles are crushed, they have bacteria, sand, dirt and germs from the environment that are introduced to the exposed skin. This area needs to be cleaned of all debris, and sterile dressings need to be applied. People forget that all aspects of your body are interconnected, and a crushing injury to one part of the body is not experienced in isolation by the body. If you have a crushing injury, your entire body is going to be affected by the injury, and you risk the complications that come with the injury to even be the reason for a fatality to result from that injury.
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Crushing injuries to the thigh are serious injuries, and it can be a permanent problem to walk normally after a thigh crush injury from a rideshare accident. The thigh is made up of the anterior, posterior and medial areas. These areas of the thigh are connected with nerves, veins and muscles. When the thigh is crushed, there will be a huge amount of pain, and it will be difficult to flex the knee or leg after a crushing injury. People with crush injuries to the thigh need additional surgical procedures to try to save the leg.

Can I Sue Uber and Do I Have a Case? What Are My Rights as a Passenger?

Yes, you have a case for a serious personal injury sustained when a driver forced you from an Uber or Lyft vehicle. It is possible to have your foot run over by the vehicle, when an Uber or Lyft driver forces you out of the car. Foot crushing injuries are common when a person is forcibly ejected from an Uber or Lyft rideshare vehicle. The foot being crushed is a painful injury, especially if it is run over by the car the person is riding in. If there is a crushing injury on the foot, it can make it difficult for walking, and may present as a compartment syndrome injury.

Crushing injuries of the foot often include crushing of the toes. Many people have gait and walking problems after experiencing a crush injury to the toes. A complication that can arise is that the toes will not heal uniformly, and will present with toe and foot deformities as the foot heals. Some people develop “claw toes” which can make it difficult to walk, when the last two joints of the toe bend downwards like a claw. In those cases, it can be impossible to find shoes that will fit to accommodate the deformity of those toe structures, and it will be painful to walk on claw toes that do not heal properly after a crushing toe injury.

If crushing injuries are not attended to quickly or in time, there can be a poor outcome for the individual who experienced this type of injury. For example, if a crushing injury to the limbs is not treated immediately, there is a risk of:

• Bone deformities
• Paralysis
• Sensory neuropathy
• Amputation
• Death

People with TBIs also need to be monitored continuously in a professional healthcare or hospital setting. They will need to have extensive testing, continuous electroencephalography (EEG) examinations, and will need to be watched to prevent seizures. Seizures are serious brain activity, that can result in the person being paralyzed or can result in death of the brain cells with each seizure activity. Several serious seizures can also result in complications which can go towards a heart issue that can also kill a person immediately. This is the reason that people with TBIs are watched in intensive care units or ICUs around the clock to prevent complications from developing.

Individuals with TBIs may lose their memories, to the point where they do not know where they are, who they are or even recognize their loved ones. This can develop as a result of brain cells that have died because of the brain pressure, or from a seizure. It may be possible to have the person with a TBI go onto have anti-seizure medication, but this will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Even a person with a TBI who never had seizures, can suddenly start having seizures and develop complications from this injury, seemingly overnight.

How Can a Person Be Forced from an Uber or Lyft Vehicle?

Yes, it is possible that a person can be kicked out of, or thrown from an Uber or Lyft vehicle. First off, are you wondering how this can happen? It turns out, it can happen quite easily. If an Uber or Lyft driver is mentally ill, angry or upset to the point of being violent towards the passenger in the car, that driver can forcibly eject someone from a rideshare vehicle.

An Uber or Lyft driver can also verbally yell, scream or abuse a passenger, to force the person out of the vehicle. If the driver is hurling fists, obscenities, insults or other angry comments such as racially discriminatory comments and slurs at the passenger, the passenger will want to leave the vehicle as soon as possible. In that way the Uber or Lyft driver has forced the passenger out of the vehicle.

As the passenger leaves the car, the Uber or Lyft driver can start off in the car while the passenger is in the process of exiting the vehicle. This will guarantee that the passenger will be personally injured, run over, crushed by the weight of the car or hit by the vehicle – as it quickly speeds away. The passenger may be too injured to call 911 or the EMTs for help, and may be left on the ground or on the side of the road, in an unfamiliar area that is not safe. If an Uber or Lyft driver forces a passenger out of a car, then the passenger is in a vulnerable position, and can be hit by another car if in the middle of the road injured, unable to stand up and move away.

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You need to talk to an attorney immediately if this situation has happened to you. You can call our law office for a free consultation in this case, and we will listen to what you have to say. If you have been forced from an Uber or Lyft car, you need to call our law office right away. Our legal team will work with you when you call, to develop your case based on your situation. We are ready to take your questions, and explain everything to you related to a lawsuit, regarding your personal injuries that are the result of this type of accident. You may even still be in recovery mode from your personal injuries – you should still call us right away.

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