Lyft Passenger Struck And Killed On I-80 After Dispute With Driver

VALLEJO, CA — A 50-year-old Vallejo man was killed Saturday when he got out a Lyft ride-hailing vehicle on Interstate Highway 80 after a dispute with the driver, the California Highway Patrol said.

The Lyft driver, described as a Middle Eastern man in his 30s from Sacramento, told the highway patrol he was taking the man home from a bar in Benecia about 1 a.m.

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In Vallejo, the driver said, the passenger began to verbally and physically assault him on eastbound I-80 east of Tennessee Street.

When the driver stopped and got out of his car to get away, the passenger began to chase him on the right shoulder toward Redwood Parkway, the CHP said.

The passenger was struck in the far-right lane by a black Audi sedan driven by a Vallejo woman in her early 20s, according to the highway patrol.

"The Audi driver did not see the pedestrian until it was too late, and the Lyft driver only heard the crash," the CHP reported.

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