Online Reporter
Sikhumbuzo Moyo Check Point Desk
A month after a car, which had been taken from a local panel beating and spray painting garage, was involved in a fatal accident, the owner of the Toyota GD6 vehicle has yet to show up.
According to the police, the vehicle with a South African registration number, belongs to one S Tshabalala who had taken it for repairs to the garage two weeks before Melusi Nkomo and his accomplice Shelton Dube aged 19 years of Nkulumane 12 connived with the security guard on duty at the garage where they are both employed to drive out the white Toyota Hilux GD6 without the owner’s consent for a joyride with their friends.
Nkomo, who was driving the car with eight passengers, encroached into an oncoming lane and hit a Chronicle driver, Silas Bhunu, who was riding a motorcycle, resulting in the 43-year-old Bhunu dying on the spot.
The vehicle lost control and further hit an electricity pole.
The suspects and their friends fled from the scene, leaving four passengers in the vehicle. However, swift action by Bulawayo Traffic West police led to the arrest of the suspects just a few hours later.
“The owner of the vehicle is the one who took it to the garage two weeks before the accident. The only particulars he presented were that he was S Tshabalala and would come back to pick up his vehicle, but he never returned.
There were no further particulars, while the South African address he gave was Florida,” said deputy Bulawayo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Thandekile Ndlovu.
Londile Moyo