FORT MYERS – A ride-share trip took a terrifying turn when a passenger had to jump out of the car.<\/p>\n
The passenger, Amanda, shared her experience with WINK News, expressing gratitude for her quick decision to exit.<\/p>\n
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver, 32-year-old Christian Thresher, ended up in a median, passed out and high at the wheel.<\/p>\n
Amanda recounted her ride on Saturday night, saying she ordered a Lyft and noticed her destination on the driver’s phone. However, they sat in the parking lot for several minutes before the driver started driving erratically.<\/p>\n
“He flew across lanes, straight into the median,” said Amanda. She asked him to return to her workplace, but he missed the turn and hit another median.<\/p>\n
In a split-second decision, Amanda asked to be let out in the middle of the road. She said, “I literally was like, let me out right here.”<\/p>\n
After she exited, the app showed Thresher heading for I-75. The Florida Highway Patrol later found his gray Honda CR-V on the shoulder of I-75 early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Thresher was arrested and charged with two counts of DUI and one drug possession charge.<\/p>\n
Amanda reflected on the situation, saying, “What if it was something worse? It could have been really dangerous for me and him.”<\/p>\n
She received a refund from Lyft, and the company reached out to her. Thresher bonded out of jail Sunday evening, and his court date is set for next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS – A ride-share trip took a terrifying turn when a passenger had to jump out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72368,72369,209,211,210,2675,53086,5695,28,897,72372,35986,16872,13719,17011,719,72370,8375,72371],"class_list":["post-149688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alcohol-abuse","tag-alcohol-law","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-driver","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-dui","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-driver","tag-highway-patrol","tag-honda-cr-v","tag-lyft","tag-myers","tag-patrol","tag-social-responsibility","tag-traffic-law","tag-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}