A window washer near the Oak Bay/ Victoria border narrowly escaped injury this morning when a car plunged through the second storey of a building.

Around 10:30 a.m. a 79-year-old man drove his grey Toyota Matrix over two parkade curbs through the glass at 1625 Oak Bay Ave., a three-story commercial building, and onto the street, said Const. Peter Lane.

The car plunged into a concrete wall and flipped onto its roof. A window cleaner was on the ladder cleaning third floor windows adjacent to the exit site.

“Had he been positioned just a few feet over we would have had a fatality,” said Lane.

The driver was taken to hospital with what police say appear to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Police say it appears the accident was the result of driver error and confusion.