A bizarre high-speed accident involving a car with no driver left the woman who witnessed it shaken in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Taxi driver Shari-Lynn Pringle was on her way to pick up a fare at the Hamilton Princess at around 5.15 a.m. when the accident ? which she witnessed in her rear-view mirror as she was fleeing for her own safety out of the car?s way ? took place.

?I was heading west on South Shore road approaching Bermuda Florist,? she told last night.

?I looked in my rear-view and saw two cars coming ? I can?t recall if they were speeding or not. I was eight or nine car lengths ahead.

?I looked up again, and the car at the back had passed the first car.? The car swung right in front of the other car, she said ? then, to her shock, snapped straight across the road to the right.

The car ricocheted off the wall at such a high speed that it was flung back across the street to hit the wall on the other side. Stepping on the gas to get out of the car?s way, Ms Pringle watched in horror in her mirror as it ricocheted again, barrelling into the grass and bushes at the side of the road.

Then, the car went airborne. ?It flipped,? Ms Pringle said. ?It landed facing the opposite direction, upside down.

?If it hadn?t flipped, it would?ve kept coming,? she added. ?It could have struck me.

?All I was thinking was, how is somebody going to explain this to my parents??

After pulling over, Ms Pringle was already dialling 911 and running back to the car when the second car travelling behind her caught up ? and kept going. ?It just drove straight past,? she said.

With her attention focused on the other car ? and the horrifying thought of what might have happened to those inside ? she said she did not notice anything about the second car other than that it kept moving.

?That?s when I knew it had to be affiliated,? she said. ?Anyone with any ounce of humanity could not have kept going.?

The mystery only deepened when she reached the damaged car, however. Instead of the horror she expected, Ms Pringle found ? nothing.

?There was nobody in the car,? she said.

Thinking at first the driver must have been thrown from the car, she said there was nobody else around. Yesterday, she theorised that the very first sharp right the car took across the road was the result of its driver bailing out.

?When it flipped I?m almost certain the passenger door was already open,? she said.

As she spoke to the 911 operator on the phone, however, a man appeared. ?He said he and his girlfriend were behind Bermuda Florist,? Ms Pringle said ? a story she did not buy, as the man had come from a different direction.

The man reluctantly gave a name she did not believe was his, she said, and told her to tell authorities the car was stolen. When another man appeared on a motorbike, the mysterious first man borrowed his cellphone to call someone ? then disappeared, cellphone and all.

The car?s engine, Ms Pringle said, was still going when the Police arrived on the scene, and a Policeman had to turn it off. Remembering the license plate of the car, she thought she had also seen it earlier in the evening speeding over Collector?s Hill. ?I noticed it because it was speeding.?

Feeling useless at the scene, Ms Pringle left to continue on to her fare. Though she called the Police yesterday and left her number, the Police had not called her back by last night.

The horrifying experience left Ms Pringle scared ? and angry.

?If someone was walking along the road, if I hadn?t looked back ? these people don?t care who they hurt.

?I would never have seen that car coming if I don?t employ defensive driving as a rule.? was unable to contact the Police about the matter last night.