GNR police have identified the 31-year-old brother of a young woman, ‘projected’ from his motorbike travelling at 200 km/ hour on the A41 motorway yesterday afternoon, and left lying badly injured on the asphalt.
The circumstances of the accident are all the more shocking for the fact that the victim was catapulted across the tarmac without her helmet, or shoes. Both had apparently fallen off before she hit the ground.
As for her brother, he is understood to have stopped the CBR 1000 ‘for a moment’, and then fled – all because he did not have a driving licence.
The badly injured sister was assisted by the driver of a car travelling behind the pair – and she is now interned in Porto’s Santo António Hospital with “a reserved prognosis”.
Thanks to the driver’s description of the incident/ the bike, etc., police were able to arrive at the suspect’s home by nightfall, and he has been duly ‘identified’ and constituted an ‘official suspect’.
The young man told police that he left his sister splayed out on the motorway ‘because he didn’t have a valid driving licence’.
Jornal de Notícias adds that the 31-year-old faces charges of dangerous driving, failure to provide assistance, driving without a licence and causing grievous bodily harm through negligence.
Source: Jornal de Notícias
