Uber driver abandoned teen in B.C. parking lot, family says [Video]

A Vancouver mom says she wants Uber to hold one of its drivers accountable for leaving her 14-year-old daughter in a parking lot in Burnaby.

Brenna Ricci regularly uses Uber to get her teenage daughters from school to their dance lessons, which they take in separate locations more than 20 minutes apart.

On Tuesday, the Uber driver picked up both girls from their Burnaby school and drove them to her 13-year-old’s lesson at Dance Collective on Lougheed Hwy.

“This time, he dropped off the first child and then decided to call me and say that he wasn’t going to drop off my second child,” Ricci told CTV News.

With her little sister already inside taking her lesson, 14-year-old Elia Ricci started to panic.

“I was kind of just freaking out because my phone’s dead. I can’t call anyone; can’t book my own Uber now,” said Elia.

She was a 20-minute …