Mason v. Uber Technologies CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. The Accident On February 27, 2017, Madamba was driving for Uber2 when he accepted a rideshare request. Madamba picked up four riders at a bar and drove them to their destination at The Donatello, a San Francisco hotel, located on at the corner of Post and Mason Streets. Madamba was driving on Mason Street and intended to drop his passengers on Mason Street, just south of Post Street. Mason Street is a one-way, two-lane street with two parking lanes, one on each side of the street. As he approached the hotel, Madamba activated the hazard lights on his car and pulled over to the side of the road in front of the hotel to drop off

2“Uber provides transportation services to the public by connecting consumers to its ‘ “partner drivers” ’ through the use of a GPS-enabled smartphone application.” (Goncharov v. Uber Technologies, Inc. (2018) 19 Cal.App.5th 1157, 1161–1162.)

2 the riders. Madamba came to a complete stop, and the front-right and rear- right passengers exited the vehicle. Charlotte Eliasson, a 22-year-old student from Sweden, was sitting in the left, rear passenger seat. Eliasson opened the left rear door on the street side of…