Andrew Peters returned home, like hundreds of others trapped for hours on I-95 in Virginia Tuesday, to a $600 bill from Uber. He is disputing the additional charge.
Hundreds of drivers have been stuck on Interstate 95 in the Fredericksburg area of Virginia since Monday morning following a period of heavy snow that swept across the region.Interstate 95 reopened Tuesday night after hundreds of drivers were trapped on a 40-mile icy stretch in Virginia. Drivers returned home tired, frustrated — and even with surprise bills.
"I’m still trying to find somebody to talk to understand why they feel like they could charge me this," Peters told the news outlet. , "heavy traffic may cause your trip to take longer than expected and to compensate your driver for the additional time, your fare may change."But this may be just one example of fees incurred during Monday night’s pileup when hundreds of motorists were stranded in freezing temperatures.
According to the Associated Press, truck driver Emily Slaughter said she was driving from New Jersey to Georgia to deliver vegetables to a FedEx facility and became stranded for five hours on the southbound side of I-95. She said everything on the road was fine until she hit Virginia.Meera Rao and her husband, Raghavendra, were driving home after visiting their daughter in North Carolina when they got stuck Monday evening.
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