No one knows whether you are more or less likely to be involved in an accident using a rideshare service. Or, at least, no one is telling. The Chicago Tribune once tried to get statistics regarding accidents, injuries, and fatalities that occurred in the Chicago metro area while using rideshare services. They couldn’t. The rideshare companies might keep such statistics—they don’t say—but they don’t release them.
Further, it appears that no government agency collects such statistics. Rideshare drivers, unlike taxis, don’t have to register any government agency, state, local, or federal. This makes it virtually impossible to keep statistics on them. Even when the police arrive at an accident scene, they can’t tell if a driver works for a rideshare service unless the driver tells them. There is no reason for the driver to do so, and the police might note it, but don’t keep statistics on that anyway. As a result, publicly available statistics on rideshare accidents simply don’t exist.
