Police officer implicated in KZN hit-and-run accident takes own life
Police in Phoenix are continuing with investigations into an apparent hit-and-run accident over the weekend.
A 48-year-old police sergeant who was implicated in a hit-and-run incident on Saturday, committed suicide in an uMhlanga, KZN, hotel earlier today.
“Circumstances surrounding the apparent suicide form part of police investigations,” says KZN SAPS spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda.
According to a statement issued by police, the hit-and-run took place on Saturday on the Phoenix Highway, where a 26-year-old woman died after she was hit by a state vehicle.
“Shortly after a case of culpable homicide was registered at the Phoenix Police Station, a sergeant, who was the last person to be in possession of the state vehicle in question, went to the same police station to open a case of ‘theft of a motor vehicle’. The vehicle was later found abandoned at the sugarcane fields on Saturday morning,” says Netshiunda.
The driver of the vehicle failed to stop at the accident scene, and a person who went to the accident scene picked up the front registration plate, which fell off the vehicle during the accident.
This morning, police received reports that the sergeant had taken his own life, says Netshiunda.
Read original story on www.citizen.co.za