Taxi Driver takes life after getting blamed by family on Uber’s InfluenceTop Stories

May 01, 2018 11:45
Taxi Driver takes life after getting blamed by family on Uber’s Influence

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A continuous number of self-annihilation in the New York has touching attention to the financial desperation of drivers competing with ride-downfall applications.

A driver named Helen Ochisor, who drove the yellow taxi in the morning, her husband Nicanor took the same taxi in the afternoon.

They rarely saw each other during the week due to their exchanging of duties on the taxi, she was asleep, reaching back home after a long night of driving. They just exchanged a quick hello while handing over the taxi.

The Couple were immigrants from Romania and bought their New York City taxi medallion nearly three decades ago. Lately it has become difficult to find fares, her husband worked all around 12 hour shifts, but still got very less money back to home, he was worried about plunging value of their once-lucrative medallion and frustrated about Uber’s takeover the industry.

On a very unfortunate cold day in March, Mr.Ochisor hanged himself in his car garage. His family blames the hopelessness that felt over his fortunes as a taxi driver.

His wife Gabriel Ochisor, said that “It depressed him, it irritated him, it probably angered him - maybe all three,”  Gabriel told to the reporters in a interview at the hose of his family. She added saying that

“It was definitely a factor. Otherwise, we can’t piece together any other factor.

Pointing to his infant son he said “We have a 7 month old over there”, his father’s first grandchild, who lived upstairs. “Why would you want to leave?

A 64 year old Nicanor Ochisor was one of the professional drives to take their lives in the last five months.

In case of another driver, named Doug Schifter, also committed suicide, with a shotgun in front of city Hall in the month of February after sharing a social media post about his economic disruption he was suffering.

By Lokesh

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