Taxi drivers attack Uber woman and put Cancun tourists at risk

The lawsuit continues cancun, taxi drivers vs Uber. Once again, an operator from the Andrés Quintana Roo union attacked a partner of the application, without caring that foreign tourists were inside the unit. He put the lives of the visitors at risk.

According to the partner’s account uberthe events occurred on the afternoon of this Monday, January 9, in the hotel zone, a few meters from the Residence Inn by Marriott hotel, at kilometer 23.5 of Kukulcán Boulevard.

The grateful one came from the International Airport, when they requested the service, the first thing she told the tourists was that they could not park there, since various acts of violence against the operators had occurred in that hotel uber.

The tourists They replied that they were no longer there and that they were walking on the boulevard, to which she agreed to go for them. During the journey, she saw some people walking with their suitcases near the Nizuc bridge, the Uber person approached them and they got into the car. Until then, everything was going normally.

Visitors told the operator that the taxi drivers They were being followed and forced to go out into the street and walk, because they did not allow access to another public transport service, other than that of the Andrés Quintana Roo union.

Minutes passed and in front of the Residence Inn hotel, a group of taxi driverswho do not know how they found out that the Uber woman was in the area, took a rock and threw it at the car, several stones hit the side of the tourists, who crouched down to avoid being hurt.

The driver in her desperation accelerated and got to where a patrol of the Quintana Roo Police Tourist Police was, and reported the facts to the officers, who asked her to accompany her to identify the alleged culprit, she agreed, but first she went to leave the tourists, since they were going to miss their flight and had to arrive.

The aggrieved returned and went to the lobby of the hoteldemanding to speak with the manager or manager on duty, the alleged manager told him that she was not responsible for what happened on the outskirts of the tourist complex.

“I told him that for the 200 pesos that the taxi drivers give him, it is not worth that they are risking the safety of their clients,” he said.

The woman came out and began arguing with the taxi drivers who were outside the hotel, they made words, attacked the operator and a patrol arrived, thanks to the fact that the witnesses called the emergency number 9-1-1.

During the brawl, the officers interviewed both parties and came to the conclusion that the culprits were the taxi drivers, but only one was arrested, due to an administrative offense and for assaulting the agents. The driver of the greens was transferred to the Municipal Public Security facilities.

The woman, victim, went to the Attorney General of the State of Quintana Roo to file a complaint. The lady’s car had material damage, costing thousands of pesos.