Stolen car found involved in accident

A CITY man is counting his losses after his vehicle was stolen by suspected carjackers in the early hours of yesterday morning at a local night spot only to be found abandoned after being involved in an accident in Ascot, it has emerged.

According to the owner of the vehicle, who refused to be named, at around midnight his cousin left the bar to take a nap in his car when the car was stolen a few minutes later.

"I was with my cousin who said he was tired and wanted to take a nap in my car which was parked outside. I gave him the keys and he went to sleep. Moments later he came to me saying the car had been stolen by unknown people," he said.

He said the assailants pushed his cousin out of the car and sped off to an unknown destination.

"After he told me we went to the Bulawayo Central Police Station and made a report. We then decided to try and track the vehicle in the direction my cousin said it had sped off. We took a taxi and went along Leopold Takawira Avenue where we found the car abandoned after it had an accident at a robot controlled intersection," he said.

The vehicle was found rammed between a street light and an external cabinet for traffic light batteries at the intersection of Leopold Takawira and George Avenue in Ascot.

The police spokesperson for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo said he had not received a report of the incident.