A Bodaboda operator was today Thursday) charged in a Nakuru Law Court for causing road accident and injuring a pedestrian.
Prosecution Desk told the Court under the precision of Chief Resident Magistrate Felix Kombo that the accused Simon Kimani, 29 while carelessly driving along Nakuru-Solai road on the evening of March 29 this year, caused a road accident that caused injury of a pedestrian, an ailing granny aged 68.
The Prosecution Desk also told Magistrate Kombo that the accused had adamantly refused to stop to attend to the injured pedestrian as required by law and instead tried to ride away after the accident.
According to the Prosecution Desk, the accused was arrested by members of the public among them other Bodaboda operators who handed him over to Bahati Police Station on the same day after he declined to take responsibility the injured pedestrian.
The Court heard that the granny was hospitalised in Bahati Medical Centre after she suffered head and spine injuries.
The accused however had defiantly refused to take responsibility to compensate the injured ageing pedestrian claiming that she did not heed to his hooting to warn her against careless crossing before the accident occurred.
The accused maintained that he carried out all necessary actions to prevent the accident arguing that he was also injured while his motorbike got damaged during the accident.
He was released on a Sh50,000 cash bond before the hearing of the case on April 23.