A COLOMBIAN taxi driver got the better of an armed robber by rolling his cab over an embankment - with his attacker still inside.

The driver, whom police identified as Isidro, 66, suffered a stab wound from the 16-year-old robber, who landed in hospital with multiple fractures, police said today.

Isidro's wife said her husband's wound was slight, but he feared the boy would kill him, so rolled his cab toward the embankment and jumped to safety.

The robber wanted to take the driver's income for that day, some $US40, Santander province police chief Alvaro Miranda said.

The incident happened in Bucamaramanga, Colombia's fifth-largest city, near the Venezuelan border.
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