Osahon Aburime opened his Lyft app on Mother’s Day last year to make some money.
That day, the North Carolina driver had made about $80 to put toward taking his wife out to dinner and getting a gift for his mom. As he was on his way to pick up a passenger, though, he got into a car accident.
“All of a sudden, I just saw this car in front of me, so I stepped on my brakes,” he said. “We just ran into each other.”
Sixteen months later, he uses a cane to walk, he said. He tried unsuccessfully to return to work as a ride-hailing driver.
“I said, ‘Let me see if I can continue to drive to make money for my family,'” he said. “But it just got to a point…
