A 25-year-old woman has been charged after driving over a cliff Saturday morning in an apparent case of road rage.
It started near the bottom of Stephen Drive near The Queensway and Park Lawn Road after a seemingly harmless fender bender.
Roland Branco, 32, says as he was driving away, the other driver, Ngoc Tran, repeatedly rammed his car. So he accelerated, hitting close to 100 kilometres an hour.
"She came from behind me and then she hit me. Then she comes beside me and I'm like, 'What are you doing? You don't know how to drive,'" revealed Branco.
"She started swearing at me. I was going to leave but she followed me all the way here."
He slammed on the brakes just before Stephen Drive comes to a dead end. But Tran continued over a cliff, plunging into the Humber River.
"The gentleman was pushed off to the right into the trees and [the car] is hanging precariously off the edge right now," explained Const. Hugh Smith of Toronto Traffic Services.
"The woman driver, she had struck the boulder at the end of the cul-de-sac, gone through a wooded barrier, metal barrier and dropped about 25 metres down to the escarpment."
Witnesses say she swam to safety. And emergency crews pulled her from the water and transported her to St. Michael’s Hospital where she was treated for arm injuries. Branco suffered only minor injuries.
Tran has been charged with impaired driving and dangerous operation of a vehicle.