 Firefighters carry an injured woman after her car plunged into the Humber River yesterday at the end of a bizarre high-speed chase. (ALEX UROSEVIC/Sun Media)
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A Toronto woman who's charged in a suspected case of road rage that led to a car plunging off a west-end cliff sobbed loudly as she tried to hide her face in court yesterday.
Ngoc Tran, 25, wearing a green prison suit and with her hair in a ponytail, was brought into College Park court for a bail hearing, handcuffed to two other women.
Tran didn't stop weeping during the proceedings. She tried to hide her face with the collar of her sweater and, at one point, was handed a tissue by an inmate in the prisoner dock.
Her lawyer, Cynthia Fromstein, said a Vietnamese interpreter may be required when a bail hearing resumes today.
There's a ban on publication of evidence.
A woman, believed to be a relative, sat in the back of the court and tried to wave at the accused.
Tran was charged Saturday with impaired driving and dangerous driving in a bizarre case of road rage that began with a minor collision between two cars on Stephen Dr., north of The Queensway, police said.
They said a motorist was chased down Stephen by another motorist and was bumped from behind. The cars were hitting speeds of 90 km/h in a 40-km/h zone.
Police allege the accused's vehicle flew off the dead-end street and plunged 25 metres down an embankment.
The driver managed to escape from the car and swim to safety, suffering minor injuries, police said.
The victim was unhurt.
