A Manhattan mom is suing the city and the Uber driver who dragged her 12-year-old son to his death for a block after hitting him near his school.
Margarita Apolinar Saavedra says the school crossing guard was on her cell phone and distracted when her son left Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem last year to get a snack before lacrosse practice.
Uber driver Jose Alberto Batista struck the sixth grader while he was crossing Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and pulled him along 150th Street, according to reports.
Saavedra says the lacrosse coach should never have told her son, Ervi Secundino-Apolinar, to leave the school unsupervised because he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
She’s suing for $5 million.
A city Law Department spokesman said, “We will review the complaint.”
An Uber rep said the company does not comment on pending litigation.