Uber driver, Elizabeth Soria tried to fight back tears when recalling the accident, “I was dropping someone off and I just heard a loud bang. The other witness said [the other driver] was speeding and she hit me.”

At approximately 8:10 a.m., Soria was turning into the Cerritos College drop-off area in front of the Social Science Building there she collided with biology major, Audra Berger.

“I was driving, looking for a space and [Soria] didn’t see me. She came out of the blue, out of nowhere, I didn’t see her. I mean if you’re driving straight you look to your left but you don’t expect [..] someone to swerve in and they [don’t] see you and they can hurt you,” Berger said.

According to Soria, words were exchanged upon exiting the vehicles. However, Berger took the confrontation too far.

“She said, ‘It wasn’t my fault, you were the one that didn’t look.’ She was even saying that she was going to kill me,” Soria said, “She literally went crazy.”

Berger denied that any verbal threats were exchanged.

“I’m not the argumentative type, I’m 38 years old so I’m very mature, I don’t have time for that […] I told her I didn’t want to argue with her. I didn’t hear she was threatened, I felt I was hurt and she totally damaged my car,” Berger said.

Berger, who was driving a 2012 BMW 328i, denied any report of a conversation between the two, in fact she claimed Soria was the aggressor after getting out of her damaged 2014 Kia Optima.

“Her car got messed up, but my car got messed up worse than hers. Hers’ had a bigger impact than mine. I’m praying because I see electrical wires hanging out [of my car]. Her car can get fixed but I’m praying mine is salvageable,” Berger added.

Citing the verbal exchange, Soria said she chose to wait until campus police arrived on the scene before exchanging information with Berger.

Campus Police Officer, Daniel Arriola got the call at around 8:15 a.m.

“I got a call for a traffic collision at a drop-off zone and drivers yelling at each other,” he recalled.

However, he denied any report that there was a verbal threat involved.

Soria’s car had damage to the front passenger side door and a busted left tire after jumping the curb.

Berger’s vehicle, on the other hand, suffered damage to the front left headlight of her motor vehicle. She also disclosed that she had just got the car eight months ago.

Because of the deploy of the airbag in Berger’s automobile, she suffered a bloody nose but refused any medical attention.

“I don’t want to deal with any hospitals, [police officers] saw that I had a bloody nose. It doesn’t matter. It’s just a bloody nose, it’ll go away,” Berger said. “I have a life, I don’t have time to be getting dramatic or act crazy over something [that’s stupid]. If you just calm yourself and act like a woman, because a woman doesn’t have time for drama like [this].”

On the contrary, Soria was waiting on her husband to take her to the hospital, citing leg pain and right arm numbness.

Arriola admitted that he had yet to determine who was at fault for the accident but he has yet to finish his investigation.