{"id":82194,"date":"2021-08-10T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=82194"},"modified":"2021-08-10T06:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:19:40","slug":"clare-dunn-assaulted-by-a-lyft-driver-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/clare-dunn-assaulted-by-a-lyft-driver-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Dunn Assaulted By A Lyft Driver In Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AehbT47aonk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/clare-dunn-lyft-driver-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with People magazine<\/a>, singer\/songwriter Clare Dunn revealed that she was physically assaulted by a Nashville Lyft driver on June 26th.<\/p>\n<p>She reported it to the police and there&#8217;s a warrant out for the guy&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>She was in Nashville to do some songwriting when she went out with friends and shared a Lyft home with ONE of them.<\/p>\n<p>The driver dropped her friend off first, but wouldn&#8217;t follow Clare&#8217;s directions to her place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[I] was like, &#8216;That was my turn. Where are you going?&#8217; He was screaming at me.&#8221; She didn&#8217;t let up on the guy, so he decided to pull the car over about a mile from her house. And that&#8217;s when it got real bad. Before I could even get my phone to try and call 911, he grabbed me by the collar, ripped me out of the backseat and slammed me face-first down into a ditch.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She had bruises on her face and was bleeding, so she went to the emergency room, and she\u00a0filed a police report and a detective helped her identify the driver.<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s speaking out because she wants to share the lessons she learned.<\/p>\n<p>She says you should always take a screenshot of the driver&#8217;s information from the rideshare app, and, take a photo of their license plate BEFORE getting into the car, because the driver&#8217;s info goes away after the ride is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Clare&#8217;s back home in Colorado but the nightmare is still with her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wake up a couple of times throughout the night thinking I heard something . . . like someone&#8217;s at my back door.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lyft put out a statement saying they&#8217;ve &#8220;permanently removed the driver from their platform.&#8221;\u00a0They also reached out to Clare to offer support and are assisting the police with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent interview with People magazine, Clare Dunn revealed that she was physically assaulted by a Nashville Lyft driver on June 26th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":82202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[6303,6304,6305,481],"class_list":["post-82194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-assault","tag-clare-dunn","tag-lyft","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:37:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/clare-dunn-assaulted-by-a-lyft-driver-in-nashville\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82201,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82194\/revisions\/82201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}