TORONTO

An alleged accomplice in a knifepoint robbery in Parkdale early Wednesday was accidentally mowed down when a victim — who had been stabbed — put his car in reverse.

Toronto Police said a man and a woman were driving in a car when they stopped in front of a building on Jameson Ave., near King St. W., around 2:40 a.m.

When the woman got out of the car, the driver was approached by two men who “produced knives in an attempt to rob them,” said Const. David Hopkinson.

The woman got back into the car and the driver was stabbed, he said.

“The victim, in a panic, tried to get away by driving the car away and in that process, reversed into (one of the alleged robbers), running him over,” added Hopkinson.

The bandit who stabbed the driver fled. The man who was run over was sent to hospital with serious injuries.

He will be charged, said Hopkinson, who added he was unable to detail the offences.

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