Crown prosecutors are arguing that a Toronto taxi driver accused of running over and killing a 28-year-old skateboarder experienced road rage the time of the incident.

Adib Ibrahim, 43, was charged with second degree murder after 28-year-old Ralph Bissonnette was killed after being struck near King and George Streets in May of 2012.

Security camera footage from a condo building on King Street shows Bissonnette riding his skateboard alongside Ibrahim’s taxi cab. The car then veers to the right, knocking the skateboarder over.

Paramedics said Bissonnette suffered serious head injuries in the crash. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Adib Ibrahim chared in the death of skateboarder

“Mr. Ibrahim abruptly and sharply veered his vehicle from the passing lane toward the north curb and into the path of Mr. Bissonnette,” Crown prosecutor Hank Goody told the jury at the trial, which began on Tuesday.

Police officers and witnesses who testified in court all said Bissonnette’s body appeared to have been flattened by the taxi following the incident, suggesting that the vehicle ran over the skateboarder after it knocked him to the ground.

“There was no intersection, no side street, driveway or lane-way into which the taxi was turning,” Goody said. “There was no fare on the north side of the street whom Mr. Ibrahim was pickup up. There was only Ralph Bissonnette on the north curb.”

The Crown’s case hinges on proving that road rage was involved in the incident. Goody said that “something confrontational happened” between the two men, causing Ibrahim to experience road rage as he was driving.

Adib Ibrahim chared in the death of skateboarder

Bissonnette was a sous-chef who was originally from Quebec City. He lived in Toronto with his girlfriend and the couple had planned to move to B.C. in the summer.

Ibrahim has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder. The trial is expected to last six weeks.

With a report from Austin Delaney