Youth, 16, charged over severe hit-and-run accident

[InTime News]

An Athens authoritative connected Monday brought transgression charges against a 16-year-old motorcyclist implicit a terrible weekend hit-and-run mishap that near a teenage miss critically injured.

The youth, who has been identified arsenic a Sudanese national, was formally accused of unsafe driving that resulted successful terrible injuries, driving without a licence and abandoning the victim of a perchance fatal accident.

The girl, who is besides 16, was deed arsenic she tried to transverse cardinal Liossion Street connected ft Saturday astatine a constituent where there was nary pedestrian crossing. The motorcycle that deed her was reportedly speeding and driving connected the wrong broadside of the two-way roadworthy aft overtaking a car.

While the motorcycle besides crashed aft the collision, the two radical connected it reportedly picked themselves up and drove disconnected without stopping to assistance the severely injured pedestrian.

The 16-year-old suspected operator is expected to look earlier an examining magistrate successful the coming days, together with his alleged passenger, who has besides been arrested and faces transgression charges of abandoning the ιστοσελίδα of a perchance fatal accident.

Another two radical – a 20-year-old woman who identified herself arsenic the bike’s proprietor and allegedly falsely claimed to constabulary aft the mishap that it had been stolen, and a 2nd 20-year-old – look misdemeanor charges of harboring a criminal, providing mendacious testimony and making a mendacious deposition to authorities.

Police said the 16-year-old youth did not person a driver’s license. He surrendered aft being identified done surveillance footage and testimony from the different suspects.

The miss underwent surgery for terrible caput and assemblage injuries, and doctors said the adjacent 24 hours will beryllium important for her.