A case in which an elderly widow is seeking justice over her son, who died in a road accident last year, was on Friday adjourned by a Thika court for one month.
Grace Njoki, 59, a farmer from Gatuanyaga in the Thika East sub-county appeared before Resident magistrate Esther Mburu seeking the court’s intervention in a case where her 27-year-old son John Kimani was ran over by a drunken driver.
Prosecuting Chief Inspector Silvester Mbila told the court that on February 23 2014, the deceased, who was a lorry driver had parked his lorry on the road side along the busy Thika-Garrisa road fueling from a jerican, when the accused, Timothy Kuria, who was driving a pickup came ramming unto him injuring him seriously.
Issac Njau, a witness in the case told the court that on that fateful date he was a passenger on the killer pickup registration KXB 539B, which was being driven by a drunk driver and an equally drunk tout.
He told the court that he had hiked a lift on the pickup as it was on a Sunday and there were no vehicles plying from Gatuanyaga to where he goes to church, a distance of about 7 kilometers, and he was getting late for the church service but while on board, he noticed that the driver was tipsy and incoherent.
He said that he tried to dissuade the driver from over speeding, but his pleas fell on deaf ears and was not surprised that he could therefore not control his pickup when he came by the lorry parked on the roadside with the driver refueling from a jerican, ramming into him, but he never stopped but drove right ahead.
Bodaboda operators and other motorists plying the road gave a chase and caught up with the pick, and they almost lynched them for causing the accident that killed the lorry driver.
The witness told the packed court that Kimani succumbed to his injuries at the Kenyatta National Hospital, where he was referred to from the Thika Level 5 Hospital.
Grace Njoki broke down during the hearing and pleaded that the court do justice for her son, saying that she spent everything she had trying to save her son, and as a widow and a mother of five children, two left behind by the dead son, she is unable to fend for her family as the slain son was by then the sole bread winner.
Her case was adjourned to April 3 when the Magistrate is expected to give her verdict.