National Lyft Sexual Assault Press and Media
Helping Survivors is a nationwide survivor advocacy organization, and our research on Lyft sexual assault is used as a source by news outlets and trade publications across the United States. The coverage below spans 2023 and 2024 and reaches regional newsrooms, national internet news outlets, and transportation trade press. In every instance, the reporting draws on their published Lyft and rideshare sexual assault data.
Helping Survivors does not comment on individual cases they refer, and they respond to press inquiries through their media contact page.
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Independent News and Regional Media Outlets
Overview: The Latin Times reported on the arrest of a Lyft driver in Austin, Texas, and turned to Helping Survivors for the underlying safety data, naming them in the article as a nonprofit organization that supports sexual abuse survivors and citing their figure of 4,158 sexual assault reports in Lyft’s first United States safety report covering 2017 through 2019.
Overview: The Daily Dot covered a widely shared account of a Lyft passenger who felt unsafe when her driver arrived with an additional person in the car, and sourced its rideshare sexual violence figures from the Helping Survivors rideshare sexual assault statistics page in the section of the article on safety concerns for women riders.
Overview: Phoenix New Times examined the rollout of Lyft’s Women+ Connect matching feature in Phoenix and used the Helping Survivors rideshare sexual assault statistics page as its source for Lyft’s own 2019 sexual assault data, including more than 1,000 reported attempted rapes in trips arranged through the app that year.
Legal Trade Journals and News Services
Overview: Smart Cities Dive reported on the United States Government Accountability Office finding that assault data across ride-hailing and taxi services cannot describe the true extent of the problem, and opened its analysis by quoting Helping Survivors by name on rideshare sexual assault being a growing problem across all rideshare platforms, including Lyft. The article also links to their statistics page for Lyft’s 2021 safety report covering 2017 through 2019.
Journalists covering Lyft sexual assault litigation, rideshare safety policy, or survivor rights can reach the Helping Survivors team through their press and media inquiries page.