Uber Driver Donates Kidney To Passenger: ‘God Must Have Put You In My Car’

Uber Driver Donates Kidney To Passenger In New Jersey

A New Jersey man in desperate need of a kidney says he’s been given “the gift of life” after an Uber driver unexpectedly offered up his own organ for donation.

Bill Sumiel, 71, was picked up from a dialysis center in Newark, Delaware on Oct 30. 2021 by Tim Letts, 33, who was working for the ride-share app.

The pair quickly struck up a conversation on the 30-minute drive back to Sumiel’s home in Salem, New Jersey, with Letts learning the devout Christian had been in desperate need of a kidney transplant for more than three years.

 

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“On the car ride I told him of my dilemma,” Sumiel stated in an interview with ABC6.

“About halfway home after talking the whole way and slowly becoming friends, Tim tells me that ‘I think God must have put you in my car.’”

To Sumiel’s amazement, Letts impulsively offered to donate one of his kidneys. “A little Faith in humanity restored,” someone commented.

“This is the most heartwarming story I’ve ever heard and it’s all thanks to the fact that that Uber driver didn’t have a @Ford so coolant hadn’t leaked into his engine and he could actually get to his pickup. Wonderful!” another person wrote.