2 Separate Uber Riders Claim Driver Put Their Lives in Danger, Was Erratically Driving Over 100 MPH By Virginia Chamlee

Two groups of Uber passengers say they experienced a terrifying ride when their driver began acting erratically in Phoenix last month.

Yuki Momohara told AZ Family that she and her boyfriend were taking an Uber on Dec. 19 when she became “scared for my life.”

“He went from the complete right lane to the left lane to go on to the exit, and then he almost hit a wall,” Momohara said of her driver.

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Video allegedly taken from inside the vehicle, filmed by Momohara and published by the outlet, showed the car careening down the road and nearly hitting highway barriers. At one point, the car drove over a sidewalk as Momohara and her boyfriend yelled for the driver to stop the car.

They can be heard telling him to “take a right” and “slow down” at various points throughout the video.

“I am clearly just freaking out and asking this man to stop the vehicle,” Momohara said of the video. “At that moment, panic started to hit in, and we weren’t even sure if or what was happening.”

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When the car finally did stop, Momohara called 911, claiming the driver told her boyfriend, “If you don’t get out of the vehicle, I’m going to hurt you.”

“He started to press on the gas, so my boyfriend said, ‘Okay, I’ll get out,’” Momohara added.

The same driver allegedly picked up another passenger — Eva Carlson — just minutes later, and a nearly identical situation took place, with Carlson telling AZ Family: “I look at the speedometer, and he is going 100 mph and almost rear-ends a car that is going an adequate speed on the highway. I had never been in a situation like that before. It was scary.”

AZ Family reports that Uber confirmed the driver has been deactivated from the platform. The ride-share company did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.