The video is of a New Jersey man running over a woman who took photos of his vehicle as he tried to flee an accident scene.

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Nov 2

This Facebook post with a video purportedly of a Kenyan man running down his wife in Texas, in the United States of America (USA), is FALSE.

The graphic video depicts a car chasing and repeatedly running over a woman on a lawn in what appears to be a residential area.

The post claims that the man ran down his wife after she kicked him out of his home in Texas.

But is the post authentic?

Google reverse image search on a keyframe from the video established that the incident happened in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in April 2022.

Inside Edition published the video and identified the car driver as Vincent Jean.

A keyword search for Vincent Jean led us to this article by the Union County prosecutor’s office confirming that Jean hails from New Jersey.

Witness reports captured by the prosecutor’s office indicate that Jean and the lady were involved in a car accident, but the man tried fleeing the scene, prompting the victim to take photos of his car.

On seeing the lady taking photos of his car, the man drove towards her and repeatedly ran over the victim before fleeing the area.

The incident was also reported by CNN, NBC, and Daily Mail.

A Google search for a Kenyan man running down his wife in Texas, USA, did not yield credible results. India Today debunked a similar claim and found it to be fallacious.

PesaCheck examined a Facebook post with a video purportedly of a Kenyan man running down his wife in Texas, in the United States of America (USA), and found it to be FALSE.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.