adminMbuso Nkala, of House Number F90 Njube suburb and employed as an instructor at Altimate Driving School in Johannesburg, South Africa, was not asked to plead to charges of contravening a section of the Road Traffic Act (negligence and failure to stop after hitting a pedestrian).
He was remanded out of custody to 28 February on $50 bail.
The prosecutor, Mr Forster Abeki said on 22 December at around 8.30am, Nkala was driving a Gauteng registered Mazda 323 registration number ZSC 793GP and heading towards Bulawayo.
On approaching the 295km peg along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road, he failed to apply brakes on time resulting in him hitting the boy who was trying to cross the road.
The victim sustained a fractured right arm and bruises on the head.
The court heard that Nkala did not make efforts to stop after the accident and proceeded with the journey. A follow-up was made leading to his arrest at a roadblock in Makhado.
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