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thu. Sep 5, 2019

How Amazon Hooked America On Fast Delivery While Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes

Our investigation found Amazon escapes responsibility for its role in deaths and serious injuries even though the company keeps a tight grip on how third-party delivery drivers do their jobs.

   

More From This Investigation

A Truck Delivering Amazon Holiday Packages. A Crash. A Family That Will Never Be the Same.

Two weeks shy of her 85th birthday, Telesfora Escamilla was struck and killed by a van delivering Amazon packages. The driver was acquitted. The family is suing Amazon.

His Mother Was Killed by a Van Making Amazon Deliveries. Here’s the Letter He Wrote to Jeff Bezos.

“I think this attitude of reckless speed stems from the top and trickles down,” Tyler Hayes wrote.

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