A local female car driver was arrested after knocking down a parked motorcycle and leaving the scene of the accident last month, and the owner of the motorcycle claimed a repair cost of 4,000 patacas, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference yesterday.
According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a report from a motorcycle owner who said that his motorcycle, which had been parked on Estrada Governador Nobre de Carvalho in Taipa, lay on the ground and sustained major damage, which would cost 4,000 patacas to repair, and that the owner suspected that the motorcycle had been knocked down.
PSP officers investigated and identified the suspect with help of the citywide CCTV camera network, and summoned the suspect, who is in her twenties, to the police station for questioning, the spokesperson said.
The suspect told the police that she thought she had only hit a “miscellaneous object”, so that she left the scene without paying attention to it, the spokesperson said.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a charge of evading responsibility, the spokesperson said.
This undated photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows two PSP officers escorting the local hit-and-run suspect to a police station.
