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On January 12, 2020, around 3:45 am, Tiffany Reed, a 29-year-old Philadelphia woman had just left work as the manager of a local Wendy’s. As she stepped into the crosswalk, a car sped across a major intersection and hit her, throwing her more than 150 feet — half the length of a football field. The car didn’t stop. Instead it made a DoorDash delivery, according to court records. The driver, Todd Burton,Just five days later,Burton was on the road again doing food delivery work for DoorDash.
Burton was arrested weeks later on charges including involuntary manslaughter in February 2020, but was soon released on bail. Over the course of the following year, he made 977 more delivers on behalf of DoorDash alone. Other materials show that in January 2020, Burton had just come off of a two-month suspension of his driver’s license for failing to respond to a traffic citation. Nevertheless he continued to make nearly 300 deliveries during that specific period of not having a license.filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas on behalf of Reed’s family against Burton, which now include DoorDash and PostMates. The original suit, which dates back to 2021, was only against Burton and GrubHub.