There was pandemonium when a man who was using his own vehicle to teach his neighbour’s wife how to drive knocked dead a six-year-old child.
The incident happened in Kireka, Bbira, in Wakiso district when a woman who was being taught how to drive by a neighbour lost control of the vehicle knocking another neigbour’s six year old child who was seated on the veranda.
The vehicle a Toyota Corsa registration number UAF 147K belongs to Acram Lutaaya who was helping his neighbour’s wife learn how to drive and unfortunately knocked Ryan Kizito, 6 dead.
“When she learnt that she had knocked the child, she got out and took off. She is nowhere to be seen,” one of the eyewitnesses said.
One of the children who witnessed the incident said the deceased was seated on the verandah when he realized the vehicle had reached him.
“When he tried to run away, the vehicle knocked him and he died.”
To make matters worse, Siraje Ssebaggala, a car dealer owned a set of vehicles but locals were astonished to hear that it was the neighbour teaching the wife how to drive.
When he learnt of the incident, Ssebaggala fumed and asked circumstances under which his wife was being taught how to drive yet he himself has vehicles at home.
“I don’t know how a boda boda rider could teach my wife how to drive a car. I need to know the relationship between him and my wife. I very well know she has phobia for driving and it is the reason I had not taken interest in helping her learn how to drive. I was astonished to know my neighbour was helping her learn how to drive,” Ssebaggala, a car dealer said.
Police in Nakuwadde has since arrested Lutaaya but Hamis Kyewazadde, the deceased child’s father has called for justice.
“I don’t know how a man can teach a neighbour’s wife he is not related to, how to drive. I don’t know how we shall face each other,” Kyewazadde said.
Learner drivers are not allowed to drive without the supervision of a licensed driving instructor in a vehicle operated by the driving school.
The only exception is for motorcycles, which learner drivers can ride without a supervisor.
