Unfortunately neither had liability insurance covering the commercial vehicle. The driver and owner are obviously liable for the collision. Sarah filed a lawsuit two weeks ago against the driver, the owner of the Honda named Dawood Kohistanti, Uber Technologies, and Honda Motor Company. Proposed Texas Law Would Make Uber Less Safe Tragically, the crash broke broke her spinal cord. She was cut out and rushed to the ICU at Baylor University Medical Center. The van flipped upside down and Sarah dangled precariously upside down.

The Uber driver, Anan Yusufzai, sped through a red light at the busy intersection of McKinney and Fitzhugh Avenues and was T-boned by a Ford 150 pickup truck. Or that the van she sat in was defectively designed. But she couldn’t possibly know that Uber had failed to vet its driver.

She thought that she had done the right thing. Sarah buckled her seat belt, even though she sat in the third row of the Honda Odyssey. After celebrating with friends in Uptown, instead of driving, they sensibly called Uber. She was about to graduate and start a new job and her future was bright. Sarah Milburn was home from a break from Oklahoma State University. People who call for an Uber and get into a Honda van are sometimes making a tragic mistake.Ī 24-year-old college student from University Park is now a quadriplegic due to a horrific crash in Dallas a year ago.

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