A Southern California Lyft driver recently captured a suspected intoxicating passenger attack in a video, who harassed and kicked him while riding and asked who “let him in the country.”
The New York Times confirmed that the California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident, which the patrol said the driver from Westminster was verbally and physically attacked.
The Highway Patrol said the incident started around midnight on August 19.
According to Fox 11, a Lyft driver picked up two women who asked for a ride from a restaurant in Newport Beach. The driver only defines himself as a news media.
Teen said the two women were upset about alcohol and sometimes said their own words.
Pedestrian video shows a woman sitting in the back seat placed her feet on the middle console between the front passenger and driver’s seats while the car was on Highway 55 near Highway 73 in Orange County.
The exchange becomes sour when the driver asks the woman to remove her feet from the area, saying that this can be dangerous.
The woman called him blasphemy and asked, “Who told you to come here?”
After a moment, the passenger kicked the driver on his head. Her companion passenger did not stop her. The woman then leaned forward, trying to bring the driver’s coffee and mix it with his other items, shouting, “Loser! That’s what you get, b.”
Tinh told Fox 11: “I’m just a regular driver and it’s legal for me to live in the United States.”
According to the California Highway Patrol, the agency is working to identify two female passengers.
