Turo Vehicles Used in New Orleans Attack and Las Vegas Explosion

The peer-to-peer car-sharing platform confirms both perpetrators passed background checks and had clean records.

Two separate New Year’s Day incidents involved vehicles rented through Turo: a deadly crowd attack in New Orleans and a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas.
The New Orleans attacker killed 14 people using a Ford F-150 Lightning, while the Las Vegas incident involved a Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel, resulting in the driver’s suicide.
Both perpetrators were U.S. military veterans with valid driver’s licenses and clean criminal records, according to Turo's CEO.
Turo emphasized its robust screening process, which includes a proprietary risk score based on over 50 data points, but acknowledged the difficulty in preventing such incidents.
The company is cooperating with law enforcement and consulting counterterrorism experts to improve safety measures and prevent future misuse of its platform.