An 89-year-old New Zealand woman on a mobility scooter fled the scene after twice running down and injuring a pedestrian, the victim alleged.
June Bridgman pleaded guilty in a South Island court this week to carelessly operating a vehicle causing injury, but denied it was a hit and run, The Dominion Post reported.
Bridgman plans to continue using the scooter.
The Blenheim District Court discharged her without conviction, but ordered her to pay 71-year-old victim Elva Ellison $NZ2,000 ($A1,633) in reparation.
Ellison told the newspaper she lay in agony with broken bones on a street in the town of Picton after being hit twice as Bridgman fled "like a bat out of hell".
The victim was hospitalised for three weeks and underwent surgery on her ankle.
Bridgman's son, the head of a local police highway patrol, defended his mother's decision to keep using the vehicle as it was her only means of transport.
While believed to be the first prosecution, the incident was far from the first involving mobility scooters in New Zealand.
Two people have been killed in accidents involving the vehicles this year alone and 50 injured in the past four years, the Post reported, quoting Transport Ministry figures.
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