Covey was Amazon's first chief financial officer. She was riding her bike in San Francisco's South Bay suburbs in 2013 when a delivery van turned left into her path.
"I heard a scream, immediately followed by a crash," the van's driver testified, according to the report.Covey's collision with a delivery van was previously reported, but the BuzzFeed News/ProPublica report revealed for the first time on Monday that the van was carrying Amazon packages. The driver was a subcontractor for OnTrac, which Amazon was employing at the time to deliver packages, according to the report.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at Covey's memorial service, and choked up as he shared a memory of her. But inside Amazon's logistics ranks, senior managers "regarded the death as just another traffic accident," the report stated, citing three people familiar with the conversations. The details of Covey's death emerged as Amazon has come under scrutiny over the impacts of its growing delivery network following investigations by
This happened in 2013. Why are you guys posting this now?
More like amazon delivery driver runs over executive. Your headline makes it sound like she was in the wrong
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