Taxi left following collision downtown: woman

Company says only that ‘appropriate measures have been taken’ after June 25 incident at Queen St. W. and University Ave. in Toronto.
A woman says she was hit by a Beck taxi driver who then drove off, leaving her injured on the street.
Yael Gottesman was crossing the intersection of Queen St. and University Ave. in her wheelchair on June 25, when she said a taxi, turning right, “came out of nowhere” and hit her.
“I didn’t realize I had been hit until after the fact when I saw the cab on the right side of my wheelchair,” Gottesman said.
Rather than stopping to check on her, Gottesman said the driver kept going. A witness chased after the cab and briefly spoke to the driver, and took down the licence plate, before the cab drove away, she said.
“I was scared and shocked. I couldn’t believe he had just driven off. I was shaking,” she said.
Though she had no serious injuries, Gottesman went to the hospital to get checked out for some minor pain. (The wheelchair wasn’t substantially damaged.)
After that, she filed a police report, and contacted Beck taxi. The company first told her they couldn’t trace the plate number back to a Beck driver, but apologized for the incident.
In a statement, Beck spokesperson Kristine Hubbard confirmed Beck has since identified the driver and forwarded the information to Toronto Police. Hubbard also said the company’s GPS system showed the driver remained on the scene. She wouldn’t confirm whether the driver had been suspended, only saying they “always suspend drivers pending an investigation after a serious report.”
“Beck did run an internal investigation and appropriate measures have been taken,” Hubbard said.
Toronto Police spokesperson Const. Caroline de Kloet said police had opened an investigation into the incident, but wouldn’t say whether charges had been laid or would be in the future. The investigation was ongoing, de Kloet said.
Gottesman said she’s unhappy with the lack of information.
“He could still be out there driving, for all I know,” she said. “He doesn’t know what he did to me.”