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A 17 -year -old teenager reports having lived moments of tension during an application race earlier this week. According to her, the driver who took her to snack with a friend, tried to disappear her, causing her to throw herself out of the car, still in motion.
To the Metropolisthe young woman said that, as soon as she got in the car, the driver started a strange conversation. “He said: ‘I’ll leave the glasses closed, because the smell here is very good.’ Only I did not smell at all at that time,” he said.
According to the teenager, after that, she replied, saying she was hot and would open her glasses. But according to the report, he did not accept and said he would turn on the air conditioner.
Then, according to the passenger, the driver asked if she was using some cream or perfume. The teenager narrated that, at that moment, began to feel a discomfort and was very nervous, especially because the man would have entered the wrong street, stretching the race.
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“When I saw that things were getting strange, because I was feeling that I was going to erase, I jumped out of the car. I didn’t think about anything, just wanted to get out of that situation,” he said. “When I jumped, the driver asked if I would do that with him. I think he was about five minutes still, until he gave up and left,” he said.
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The teenager said she felt she was going to “erase”
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At this point, he decided to jump out of the car, fearing his own safety
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The family registered the police report
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According to her, the street was quite deserted. She said she went to a couple with a child and asked for help. “I was traumatized. I no longer have the courage to take any race by app. Besides, one thing that worries me is that he knows where I live,” he said. “I’m trying to follow life normally, slowly improving,” added the teenager.
The adolescent’s family filed the police report at the 33rd Police Station (Santa Maria), which investigates the case. THE MetropolisFor now, it will not mention the name of the company and the driver involved, because the findings are underway.
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Sought by the report, the Brazilian Association of Technology and Mobility (AMOBITEC) said that associated companies closely follow all complaints made by users and users, with the maximum seriousness and evaluate each case individually to take appropriate measures.
“AMOBITEC stresses that, in the past, several such reports related to platform trips were investigated by the Civil Police and, as far as the authorities have been aware of, requested the filing after the police inquiry, as, according to the investigations, there were no elements of crime practice,” the statement said.
According to Amobitec, some court decisions, made in Santos (SP) and Rio de Janeiro, condemned users to pay compensation for moral damages to the driver after “it was proven that the allegations were unfounded.”
O Metropolis disclosed the case of. She was convicted after unjustly accusing the application driver Paulo Sérgio Guimarães of trying to passenger in 2022. In the decision, it was stipulated that the actress paid the amount of $ 10,000 in compensation, but it is still possible to appeal.
The case began in May 2022, when a woman named Juliana Leiroz published on social networks that she had been doped in an application race in Rio de Janeiro. She said Paulo Sérgio used a spray inside the car that left her dizzy.
Juliana stated that, frightened, she ended the trip and got out of the vehicle. Soon after, he posted everything on social networks, exposing the photo and the driver’s name. Luisa Perissé republished the content and increased the repercussion of the case.
Check out AMOBITEC’s full note:
Companies associated with the Brazilian Association of Technology and Mobility (AMOBITEC) closely follow all complaints made by users and users with the most seriousness and evaluate each case individually to take appropriate measures.
AMOBITEC stresses that in the past several such complaints relating to platforms were investigated by the Civil Police and, as far as the authorities were aware, in all cases requested the filing after the police inquiry, since, according to investigations, there were no elements of crime.
Some judicial decisions, issued in Santos (SP) and Rio de Janeiro, condemned users to pay compensation for moral damages to the driver after proving that the complaints were unfounded.
None of the complaints that arrived in the press and were investigated found materiality in the sense of narcotic or dopean substances of any kind by application drivers. Thus, in neither case the police inquiry pointed to evidence of crime or determined the indictment of the alleged aggressor driver.
AMOBITEC members are receptive to complaints received and are committed to ensuring the security of users of the services, as well as partner drivers, always making themselves available to the competent authorities to collaborate under the law.
