A lawsuit filed this week accuses Uber of negligence after a Sacramento woman claims she was abandoned by a driver and later sexually assaulted.

The lawsuit alleges the San Francisco-based company failed to safely transport the 23-year-old woman, named as "Jane Doe" in court documents, to her Rosemont home after a concert at Ace of Spades in Sacramento's Midtown neighborhood on May 28.

Instead, according to the complaint, the driver left her in an area described as "high crime" in the middle of the night, vulnerable, intoxicated, and without her phone or keys.

"What really stood out to me was she was just, you know, a passenger by herself, a young woman. And because this driver, who admitted to her mother later after the incident happened, because he was basically frustrated that someb

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