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Uber tallies 6,000 sexual assaults in US in two years

December 07, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO: Ridesharing leader Uber, under fire around the world for its safety record, said it had tallied nearly 6,000 sexual assaults in the United States over the past couple of years.

That included more than 450 cases of rape, according to Uber’s first public report on issue Thursday, which counts attacks by both passengers and drivers over 2017-18. It also revealed 19 fatal assaults related to the company over the two-year period, when it averaged more than 3.1 million trips each day in US.