An 18-year-old Charlottetown man has pleaded guilty to hitting a pedestrian with his car and fleeing the scene after an accident in December of last year.
Dion Jakaj hit the man near the intersection of Doncaster Avenue and Richard Drive in the Sherwood area of Charlottetown. The accident left the pedestrian with “serious” and “significant” injuries, and prompted police to ask for the public’s help to locate the unknown driver.
The court heard that the victim and his wife were walking in the residential area in the early evening, when it was already dark. The victim was wearing reflective clothing: a glowing running vest with lights on the front and back.
Jakaj hit the man with his car after driving up on the couple from behind. He then left the scene.
Neither the man nor his wife could describe the driver.
The man told police he remembers lying on the road and his wife …