Family of Uber Eats rider who died after being hit by truck urges MPs to pass Labor’s gig worker changes

Burak Dogan, who died after being hit by a truck in Sydney’s inner west 26 minutes after making a delivery for Uber Eats. Photograph: Supplied by his family/TWU

Yavuz Cikar still seethes at the injustice that followed his nephew Burak Dogan’s death.

Dogan, an Uber Eats rider and 30-year-old Turkish student, was riding an electric bike in Sydney’s inner west in April 2020. About 26 minutes after he cancelled an Uber Eats delivery, he was hit by a truck.