Uber driver DaVante Williams was stranded with a teenage passenger for hours on the snowy I-95 and is being praised for going “above and beyond” to get her home safe.
, D-Va. Some, like Williams, were stranded overnight into Tuesday morning, although no injuries or deaths were reported.
Around midnight on Tuesday morning, Williams set out and picked up three different riders before picking up a teenager trying to head home to Williamsburg, Virginia — some 150 miles away. The girl was originally going to take a train, but it was canceled due to a derailment, so she turned to Uber. Sitting there with nowhere to go, both called loved ones and friends. Williams said he had drinks and some snacks in his truck and that his vehicle is good on gas — but he did start to get concerned about fuel as the clock ticked.
In an aerial view, traffic creeps along Virginia Highway 1 after being diverted away from I-95 after it was closed due to a winter storm on Jan. 4, 2022, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. DaVante Williams, an Uber drier who became stranded withUltimately, Williams was determined to get both of them home and ended up finding a way to exit the freeway around 7:30 a.m. the next morning.
"We’re currently dealing with a pandemic and so many other things, people are mentally overwhelmed," he added., which wrote: "Not all heroes wear capes."
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